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A toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in your application

Is moby/hyperkit beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to moby/hyperkit to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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333
Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
47
Dominant language
C
License
BSD-2-Clause
Last GitHub push
Feb 20, 2022
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to moby/hyperkit

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's BSD-2-Clause license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.
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  • use of undeclared identifier 'VERSION_SHA1'
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    moby/hyperkit#340 ·

  • TCP Previous segment not captured
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    moby/hyperkit#338 ·

  • FreeBSD 13 failed to boot after successful installation
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#336 ·

  • Accessing external address from vm
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    moby/hyperkit#334 ·

  • Invalid instructions?
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    moby/hyperkit#333 ·

  • Build error message show 'set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]' in clang version 1316.0.21.2.5
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    moby/hyperkit#332 · 4 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Error: hyperkit: no bottle available!
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#330 · 3 comments · 6 reactions ·

  • Hyperkit's go api could not create console on stdio.
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    moby/hyperkit#325 ·

  • hyperkit installation require Xcode.app to be installed on Mac
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#322 · 2 comments ·

  • RDTSCP instruction triggers "illegal instruction" for Linux container on macOS
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#321 ·

  • Hyperkit Build from Release Tarball Fails Assertions Related to Git Version
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    moby/hyperkit#320 · 2 reactions ·

  • Can Windows 10 be booted?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    moby/hyperkit#315 · 4 comments ·

  • qcow support build failure with ocaml 4.12
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#312 ·

  • Any way to get the display/VNC?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#309 ·

  • Compilation fails on MacOS 11.0
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    moby/hyperkit#297 · 5 comments ·

  • Tag stable releases more frequently
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#287 · 2 comments · 5 reactions ·

  • Exposing hyperkit ip address for network=host setting
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#280 ·

  • High CPU when using file watchers and volumes
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#279 · 4 comments · 7 reactions ·

  • Build error: Package `cstruct.lwt' not found
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#274 ·

  • macos hyperkit NAT mode network (VPN share issue)
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#273 · 1 comment ·

  • Question about snapshots
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    moby/hyperkit#271 · 1 comment ·

  • OCaml
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    moby/hyperkit#255 · 5 comments · 5 reactions ·

  • uninstall
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    moby/hyperkit#252 ·

  • docker crashes frequently on startup
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#242 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Failure to install following the instructions: qcow dependencies could not be met
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#241 · 5 comments ·

  • Segfault in ACPI table generation if no PCI devices instantiated
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

    moby/hyperkit#232 · 5 comments ·

  • Allow the use of vmnet as an unprivileged user
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    moby/hyperkit#227 ·

  • HPET: 64-bit main counter
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#224 · 4 comments ·

  • Possibly corrupt qcow2 image
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#221 · 4 comments ·

  • Error messages are imprecise
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    moby/hyperkit#220 ·

  • Assertion failed: (!REPLY_RING_EMPTY(sc)), function send_response_common, file src/lib/pci_virtio_sock.c, line 934.
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#213 · 1 comment ·

  • Consider using kqueue in hypervisor socket implementation
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    moby/hyperkit#211 · 5 comments ·

  • Allow the VM to be a router
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#178 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Readme in OPAM Dev Environment is not working on High Sierra
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    moby/hyperkit#175 · 7 comments ·

  • PCI-passthrough/GPU support
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    moby/hyperkit#159 · 2 comments · 6 reactions ·

  • (RFE?) Hyperthread NUMA topology not presented
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    moby/hyperkit#155 · 4 comments ·

  • USB Passthrough
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    moby/hyperkit#149 · 17 comments · 85 reactions ·

  • macOS guest support
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    moby/hyperkit#148 · 8 comments ·

  • connecting to virtio sockets from VM hangs HyerKit
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    moby/hyperkit#146 ·

  • feature request: hyperkit-ctl
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#145 · 4 comments · 13 reactions ·

  • virtio-vsock can't handle a high connection rate
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#105 · 1 comment ·

  • Deadlock in AHCI stop blockif_cancel due to lack of SIGCONT signal delivery
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#94 · 2 comments ·

  • vCPU thaw triggering VMEXIT_ABORT
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#57 · 1 comment ·

  • Multiboot support
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#38 · 1 comment ·

  • Hypervisor features
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    moby/hyperkit#20 · 3 comments · 4 reactions ·

  • Support for booting more guest operating systems
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    moby/hyperkit#19 · 14 comments · 3 reactions ·

  • Monitor power events for ACPI crash workaround
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    moby/hyperkit#8 ·

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