Hyper is a hypervisor-agnostic tool that allows you to run Docker images on any hypervisor.

Hyper combines the best from both world: VM and Container.

*BYOK = bring your own kernel

• Docker 1.5 or later
• QEMU 2.0 or later
• Xen 4.5 and VT enabled host (for Xen support)

Ensure you are running Linux (kernel 3.8 or later) and have Docker (version 1.5 or later) and QEMU (version 2.0 or later) installed. Then install hyper with

curl -sSL https://hyper.sh/install | bash

Or download the binary tarball and install it directly.

To run hyper, just type hyper if you've installed packages.

For information on using the command line, just type hyper. You may use hyper <command> --help for detailed information on any specific command.

Clone hyper in GoPath

> cd ${GOPATH}/src
> git clone https://github.com/hyperhq/hyper.git hyper

And make sure you have go (>= 1.4), godep, and autotools, go into the hyper dir

> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure
> make

Then you can get the binaries hyperd daemon and hyper cmdline tool.

You may also need the kernel and initrd from HyperStart to run your own hyper.

• Documentation
• Get Started
• Reference
• Release Notes

Found a bug, want to suggest a feature, or have a question? File an issue, or email [email protected]. When reporting a bug, please include which version of hyper you are running, as shown by hyper --version.

• Twitter: @hyper_sh
• Blog: https://hyper.sh/blog.html
• IRC: #hypersh (web) on freenode