novm / kvmtool still alive?

True, novm appears somewhat stale, and I don't know if it sees active use. I mentioned it only as an example of an interesting project using KVM directly.

> kvmtool that I found doesn't seem all that active either.

It does most of what people using it want; it tend to grow new features as the KVM API does, grow new architectures when KVM supports them and someone wants to run kvmtool on them, and occasionally gain new drivers. I'd recommend trying kvmtool in its current state; it works quite well.