I'm so proud of the work that went into the OpenVMM and OpenHCL. My team has focused on storage devices, and there is a ton of great code in this repo contributed by the engineers working on this (me: I'm a manager, so of sometimes dubious value :)). It's very exciting to see this code become open source! Not only is this a checkpoint in all the hard work that goes into writing a new VMM (and in my team's case: storage emulation code), it also marks a new way of working for some of us. While many engineers in Microsoft from different orgs have contributed already, we're going to keep developing this in the open. As the blog post below mentions, reach out on GitHub or Zulip. Or, you can contribute to the code itself (anyone else love debugging IDE emulators?). While we're already using this code in Azure (over 1.5 million VMs last month, according to the blog), there's still plenty of interesting and exciting stuff to go do.
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The team is super excited to announce the open sourcing of our Rust based VMM - OpenHCL. Look forward to feedback and engagement from community. David Hepkin John Starks Bruce Sherwin Giri Viswanathan Carolina P. Jin Lin Blog: https://lnkd.in/gn_pyHvU GitHub: https://lnkd.in/gmqAu2VU
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1moWOW! let's goooo! finally!!! such a dope project, exciting that such a big milestone has been hit!