nestrilabs/nesbox
Fast, lightweight micro virtual machine for cloud streaming — GPU included
About the project
A Rust microVM with GPU sharing for cloud gaming: guests render near bare-metal speed and boot in about a second. Requires KVM, a GPU with a DRM render node, and a custom kernel with Mesa.
Useful for
- Run several short-lived Linux microVMs sharing one GPU for game streaming
- Build a custom guest kernel with VIRTIO_PCI, DRM_VIRTIO_GPU and VSOCKETS
- Benchmark guest rendering against bare metal using docs/BENCHMARKS.md
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Why it’s trending
- 24 stars so far today, about 32 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 32× as much.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- Hacker News: “Nesbox: A fast MicroVM with GPU sharing” — 25 points, 15 h ago.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 33
- Today
- 24 · ≈ 32 by evening
- Forks
- 1
- Issues and pull requests
- 9
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- Rust
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Created
- April 22, 2026
- Last push
- September 24, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Nesbox: A fast MicroVM with GPU sharing25 points, September 24, 2026
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