"Cloud Hypervisor started life in 2018 as a joint effort between Google, Intel, Amazon, and Red Hat - all of which wanted to share their work on virtualization components to speed their respective efforts to create virtual machine monitors and hypervisors. The participants decided that work was best undertaken using Rust and the rust-vmm project is the result. Intel took the project in a slightly different direction and led to the creation of Cloud Hypervisor, a Virtual Machine Monitor for cloud workloads."
"The project delivered version 48 last week, complete with the new policy to "decline any contributions known to contain contents generated or derived from using Large Language Models." As detailed in the project's documentation for contributors, the reasons for the ban are "... to avoid ambiguity in license compliance and optimize the use of limited project resources, especially for code review and maintenance." That wording suggests Cloud Hypervisor's maintainers fear legal complications and/or contributions comprised of AI slop."
Cloud Hypervisor began in 2018 as a collaboration among Google, Intel, Amazon, and Red Hat to share virtualization components and accelerate virtual machine monitor development. Participants chose Rust and produced the rust-vmm project. Intel steered efforts toward a cloud-focused Virtual Machine Monitor that evolved into Cloud Hypervisor. The Linux Foundation assumed stewardship in 2021 with support from Alibaba, ARM, ByteDance, and Microsoft; later supporters include AMD, Ampere, Cyberus Technology, and Tencent Cloud. Cloud Hypervisor runs on KVM and the Microsoft Hypervisor and is mainly used by public clouds. Version 48 introduced a policy declining contributions generated or derived from Large Language Models to avoid license ambiguity, reduce review and maintenance workload, and mitigate potential legal and provenance risks associated with AI-assisted code.
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