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cloud-hypervisor

A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Tool cloud-workloads kvm rust-vmm
Minimal

Install package

Latest
min add cloud-hypervisor
Source archive SHA256
a2393046…e4ef
Spec hash
b9a19834…eda5
Target
amd64/linux
Needs network
Yes
Closed source
No

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What is cloud-hypervisor?

A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

How to use this package

Quick install

Installs the package into the current environment for this session. Use --build or --runtime to persist it as a build-time or runtime dependency.

min add cloud-hypervisor

Declare as a task dependency in minimal.toml

Listing the package under tasks.<name>.packages makes it available inside that task’s sandbox.

[tasks.dev]
packages = ["cloud-hypervisor"]

Build-time vs runtime

Choose build-time for tools needed during compilation, runtime for dynamic libraries loaded at runtime.

min add --build cloud-hypervisor
min add --runtime cloud-hypervisor