Cloud-hypervisor: A new choice for virtual machine monitor
summary
Cloud-hypervisor is a Rust-based VMM built on rust-vmm crates and targets cloud workloads on x86_64 and ARM64, dropping legacy devices in favor of a small set of virtio/vhost drivers. It uses KVM (and a hypervisor crate for Hyper-V), integrates with Kata Containers, and demonstrates ARM64 snapshot/restore that saves GIC distributor/redistributor, MPIDR and system registers and requires creating VGs before starting vCPUs. Demo builds with cargo (~1 minute), uses an API socket for pause/snapshot/resume, and successfully restores the exact VM state.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:17History and Rust VMM
- 2:44Cloud Hypervisor Architecture
- 4:40Core Components and Memory
- 6:53Device Emulation
- 8:51Kata Containers Integration
- 10:21ARM64 Enabling and Memory
- 13:00ARM64 Specific Implementation
- 14:10ARM64 Snapshot and Restore
- 16:22Future Work
- 17:20Live Demo
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