Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.11 Adds Windows Guest Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.11 Adds Windows Guest Support

Intel has a shiny new feature release out of their open-source Cloud-Hypervisor that runs atop KVM and leveraging the Rust programming language...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Cloud-Hypervisor-0.11

[edwaleni]

Will they get everyone into it and then move on like with Clear Linux?

I would be curious to know if this hypervisor flavor runs better on Clear Linux with its optimizations.

One of the things I liked about Clear Linux was that the performance improvements could be leveraged in KVM.

[gilboa]

Will they get everyone into it and then move on like with Clear Linux?

I would be curious to know if this hypervisor flavor runs better on Clear Linux with its optimizations.

One of the things I liked about Clear Linux was that the performance improvements could be leveraged in KVM.

Very much doubt it.
In CPU benchmarks, qemu can nearly reach bare metal performance.
I/O bound applications are less likely to be influenced by Clear Linux optimization.

That said, faster introduction of faster virtio interfaces (IO_uring) can make a measurable improvement.

- Gilboa