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by yencabulator 861 days ago
There has been weirdly little discussion on HN about Cloud Hypervisor. I guess because it's such a horribly bland non-descriptive Enterprise Naming name?

It looks pretty sweet. Rust & sharing libraries with Firecracker and ChromeOS's crosvm, with more emphasis on long-running stateful services than in Firecracker.

https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

https://github.com/rust-vmm

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Unfortunately, Cloud Hypervisor does not use strong sandboxing/privilege separation like crosvm does.
For anyone else wanting to check on the status of this: it seems they're looking at a combination of seccomp, landlock and a systemd service instance per VM, with systemd doing DynamicUser, namespacing, and initial seccomp. Work seems to be happening right now, but of course it's telling and sad that it wasn't part of the original design.

https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/issues/...