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Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs


Microsoft announced today the new and now open-source OpenHCL paravisor for the virtualization stack for enabling Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with this Rust-written software stack

OpenHCL is an execution environment that serves as a paravisor to confidential computing VMs with hardware protections provided by AMD SEV-SNP or Intel TDX. ... OpenHCL is composed of several open-source components, the most important one being OpenVMM, the cross platform, virtual machine monitor (VMM) project written in Rust. The OpenHCL code is open-source via the Microsoft OpenVMM project on GitHub.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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