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Glossary

What is cloud Hypervisor?

Answer in brief

An open-source, Rust-based virtual machine monitor for modern cloud workloads, governed under the Linux Foundation.

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Cloud Hypervisor in agent sandboxes

Cloud Hypervisor shares Rust components with Firecracker (via the rust-vmm project) but targets a broader set of features, such as device hot-plug and more guest configurations. Some sandbox platforms use it where they need capabilities Firecracker deliberately omits.

Sources

  1. cloudhypervisor.org/

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Agent Sandboxes. (2026). What is cloud Hypervisor?. agentsandboxes.org. Last reviewed November 8, 2026. https://agentsandboxes.org/glossary/cloud-hypervisor/

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