Cloud Hypervisor 34 Brings QCOW2 Support for Backing Files, Paravirtualized Panic Device

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Phoronix: Cloud Hypervisor 34 Brings QCOW2 Support for Backing Files, Paravirtualized Panic Device

Cloud Hypervisor -- the Rust-written open-source VMM that was started by Intel while having evolved into a Linux Foundation project with backing from multiple organizations -- is out with the Cloud-Hypervisor 34 release...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-34

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I wonder how long until there's a bare metal hypervisor written in Rust. Cloud Hypervisor runs on a Linux kernel; you could build a very lightweight stripped-down host OS image for it, but imagine if it was the only binary beneath the guest VMs.