Please add Cloud-hypervisor (Rust-Vmm) for light weight Virtual Machines

[codesiddhant]

Description
The new rest-vmm based virtual machine are extremely fast and secure with minimum overhead please add new cloud-hypervisor in kubevirt.io for adding light weight VMs with much faster Boot time

Use case
cloud-hypervisor is very similar to firecracker but with some additional features and security it's supports full-fledged Os including windows based Operating System and containers

Progress Status

• Branch created
• Code committed to development branch
• Testing - QA
• Documentation
• Release notes - resolved issues, compatibility, known issues
• Code committed to upstream release/hotfix branches
• Documentation committed to upstream release/hotfix branches

[jellonek]

in kubevirt.io? facepalm?

[codesiddhant]

in kubevirt.io? facepalm?

yes

[jellonek]

hint: this project is:
a) independent from kubevirt.io
b) kinda competing with kubevirt
c) based on top of libvirt (dunno if rust-vmm works with libvirt, i didn't seen anything official, but https://github.com/rust-vmm/kvm-bindings seems to be one of possibilities)
d) using specific qemu cmdline parameters under the hood

the last thing is that ... virtlet project is just dead for last 3y (what i hope will change in near future).

[keyingliu]

actually virtlet has been running stably in my org, we have provisioned thousands of virtlet VMs for years, and the numbers are increasing, they all work fine. the only shortcoming is criproxy is needed to proxy CRI calls, but the independent runtime also makes us be easy to customize what we need compared to kubevirt

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