Microsoft Announces Open-Source Hyperlight For Embedded VMM Within Linux/Windows Apps

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft Announces Open-Source Hyperlight For Embedded VMM Within Linux/Windows Apps

Microsoft last month announced the open-source Rust-written OpenHCL for running confidential Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP virtual machines. Today Microsoft is announcing another interesting open-source, Rust-based project in the virtualization space: Hyperlight. Microsoft's Hyperlight project is an embed-friendly, lightweight VMM for use within Linux and Windows applications...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Hyperlight-Rust-VMM

[Lachu]

Sorry, but my English is very bad.

As far as I understood, MS create technology to ran VM inside other process, like GUI app. It is bad idea, but maybe it could helpful to develop Anti-Cheat or video DRM in some way.

[bug77]

But, but but... Rust is just bad and not suitable for real-world usage. Right? /s

[Condoriano1997]

Yet another push for freedom-restricting "confidential computing" in consumer software.
In the context, "secure" means "hidden away from the user" and "protected" means "protected from user modification".

Sure, in the datacenter space it ostentibly means you only have to trust the hardware vendor, and not the cloud provider.
But in the consumer space, it means your computer will run software that you cannot inspect, debug, modify or do anything really, guaranteed by your own CPU.

The use case for "protecting" against the user is for companies who see their products as a means to gain power over their users. Which is basically what the entire big tech world is about nowadays.

[sophisticles]

The good thing is that Microsoft is using a real open source license, unlike that commie inspired GPL and since it is MS, they have access to all the best programmers so unlike most GPL'd "open source" software, this one will actually be bug free and useful.

[Volta]

The good thing is that Microsoft is using a real open source license, unlike that commie inspired GPL and since it is MS, they have access to all the best programmers so unlike most GPL'd "open source" software, this one will actually be bug free and useful.

No idiot. GPL is the real Open Source license. Others are slave licenses. It seems you like slavery, don't you? MS has access to the best programmers when they're at lkml. MS programmers are worst of the worst. Bug free like windows buggy mess? You're fucking joke.

[geerge]

The good thing is that Microsoft is using a real open source license, unlike that commie inspired GPL and since it is MS, they have access to all the best programmers so unlike most GPL'd "open source" software, this one will actually be bug free and useful.

Those "best programmers" invented the windows api, so...

[Volta]

But, but but... Rust is just bad and not suitable for real-world usage. Right? /s

Nobody said it can't compete with Python.

[oleid]

So, this is essentially what people are using wasm outside the browser for, right?
Only that these VMs run native code, not jit-compiled code.

Edit:

Ah, the linked blog post explains it well and they even mention wasm.

[HEL88]

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Slaves use Linux.

You can't buy the laptop you want because many things may not work. You can't use programs that are good in the given fields, e.g. music, graphics, design, etc., but get tortured on much worse versions.

What is freedom when I can't buy the hardware I want and use the software I want and thus waste more time. Time that I have the least in my life - this is the most precious thing we have - our time and Linux takes it away from us.

Most people think sensibly. That's why they don't want Linux even for free, because they don't want to waste their time.