Building a serverless hypervisor in Rust from scratch

[sameo]

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• Name: Samuel Ortiz
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  https://www.openstack.org/videos/summits/berlin-2018/kata-containers-project-update-1
  https://youtu.be/T_NxDXAdbfo

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Description of your talk

We will be using the recently formed https://github.com/rust-vmm project to build a very minimal hypervisor in Rust, from scratch. We will be limiting ourselves to:

• 64-bit Linux guest support only
• Direct kernel boot, no firmware support
• initrd/initramfs based userspace only. No disk support.
• Support for CPU, memory and console only.

Essentially, this hypervisor will virtualize the hardware resources a serverless framework would need, except for networking.

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• Talk level :
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• Length (max 45 min) : 45mn
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