Experiments with crosvm outside Chromium | Linux Today

Experiments with crosvm outside Chromium

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Tomeu Vizoso
Nov 17, 2017

Crosvm is a KVM monitor used within Chromium OS for application isolation. Two of crosvm’s defining characteristics is that it’s written in Rust for increased security, and that uses namespaces extensively to reduce the attack surface of the monitor itself. Getting it to run outside Chromium OS is relatively straightforward. In these instructions, we hack around the issue with linker environment variables so we don’t have to install it properly.

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Tomeu Vizoso

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