Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support

The Rust Hypervisor Firmware is a project out of the Cloud Hypervisor umbrella for developing open-source, Rust-based firmware that can be launched from any environment able to load ELF binaries and run them via the PVH booting standard. Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 is out this weekend with the newest capabilities...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Hypervisor-Firmware-0.5

[Draget]

So this is a kind of coreboot playload? Or even a coreboot replacement? Not sure how it fits in.

[X_m7]

So this is a kind of coreboot playload? Or even a coreboot replacement? Not sure how it fits in.

From what I can tell it is something similar to coreboot but specific to virtual machines, so it's more like a replacement for the TianoCore/EDK2 firmware that QEMU uses to boot UEFI stuff for example.