Cloud Hypervisor
Rust virtual machine monitor for KVM and MSHV
DevOps / Virtualization · Apache-2.0 · 6.4k
Reviewed 2026-10-17 · last push 2026-10-17 · repo checked 2026-10-19
What's Good
Release v54.0 (2026-10-14), built on the shared rust-vmm crates. It supports CPU, memory and device hotplug, vhost-user device offload, direct kernel boot or UEFI firmware boot, and an HTTP API for controlling VMs. Static binaries ship for x86-64 and AArch64, and 64-bit Linux plus Windows 10 / Windows Server 2019 guests are supported. ★~6.4k.
The Catch
License note: GitHub detects no license for this repo, because there is no single LICENSE file. Licensing is declared per file: the code is Apache-2.0, some files are Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause, and the docs and markdown are CC-BY-4.0 — the texts are in the LICENSES/ folder. Check that this fits your compliance process before you ship it. It is also low-level: there is no VM manager or UI, so you create and script VMs yourself through the CLI or API. Main support is x86-64 and AArch64; riscv64 is experimental with limited features.
Verdict
A lean, modern VMM to build a VM platform or sandbox on — not a replacement for a VM manager.
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