# Cloud Hypervisor

> Cloud Hypervisor is a KVM-based virtual machine monitor written in Rust on top of the rust-vmm crates, dual-licensed Apache-2.0 OR MIT; it targets cloud workloads with CPU/memory/device hotplug, Windows and Linux guests, and vhost-user device offload, all with a deliberately small attack surface.

KVM-based Rust VMM built on rust-vmm, dual-licensed Apache-2.0 / MIT.

- **Category:** Execution Sandbox
- **License:** Apache-2.0 OR MIT
- **Language:** Rust
- **Self-hosted:** Yes
- **GitHub stars:** 6285 (2026-10-04)
- **Repository:** https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor
- **Last verified:** 2026-10-04

Source: https://agent.c8.fit/tools/cloud-hypervisor/