Intel has donated the cloud-optimized Cloud Hypervisor to the Linux Foundation, whose infrastructure and services will be used in further development. Moving under the wing of the Linux Foundation will relieve the project from dependence on a separate commercial company and simplify collaboration with the involvement of third-party participants. Companies such as Alibaba, ARM, ByteDance and Microsoft have already announced their support for the project, whose representatives, along with developers from Intel, formed a council overseeing the project.
Recall that Cloud Hypervisor provides a virtual machine monitor (VMM) running on top of KVM and MSHV, written in Rust and built on the basis of the components of the Rust-VMM joint project, which allows you to create task-specific hypervisors. The project allows you to run guest systems (Linux, Windows) using paravirtualized devices based on virtio, the use of emulation is minimized. Among the key tasks mentioned are: high responsiveness, low memory consumption, high performance, simplification of configuration and reduction of possible vectors for attacks. There is support for migrating virtual machines between servers and hot plugging to CPU, memory and PCI device virtual machines. x86-64 and AArch64 architectures are supported.
Source: opennet.ru