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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

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Clippy: Tighten integer casts 3 months ago

good first issue code-quality

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

5.9K

A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Replace `get_prefault_num_threads()` `with available_parallelism()` 3 months ago

good first issue code-quality

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Better Document/Model Seccomp Rule Relation by Threads 3 months ago

good first issue code-quality

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

ch-remote: switch from clap's builder API to derive API 3 months ago

good first issue code-quality

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Style/Error handling: Drop less underlying errors and report them instead 3 months ago

good first issue code-quality

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Improve help information 3 months ago

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cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Refactor codebase to avoid fully qualified paths in type usage 3 months ago

enhancement good first issue code-quality

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Tests: Test Behavior of Receive Migration Call in Error Case 4 months ago

good first issue

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Code Quality: Reevaluate #[allow]-attributes 4 months ago

good first issue

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Support loading smbios strings from a file to prevent secret leaks 6 months ago

good first issue

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

5.9K

A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Refactor Vm::new_from_memory_manager 8 months ago

good first issue

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

5.9K

A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

vhost-user-block: Add testing using other backend 9 months ago

good first issue

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Audit clippy overrides 10 months ago

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cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

VMM Events: Streamline logging 11 months ago

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cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Add an integration test for VMs using 255+ vCPUs about 1 year ago

good first issue

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

5.9K

A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Remove SGX Support about 1 year ago

good first issue

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

5.9K

A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Remove pinned version of cross from quality.yaml about 1 year ago

good first issue CI

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

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A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization

Manually bump log to 0.4.27+ about 1 year ago

good first issue

cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

5.9K

A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

Rust

#cloud-workloads#kvm#rust-vmm#virtualization