libvirt: Cloud Hypervisor driver
Description: libvirt, virtualization, virtualization API

# Cloud Hypervisor driver

Cloud Hypervisor is an open source Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that runs on top of KVM. The project focuses on exclusively running modern, cloud workloads, on top of a limited set of hardware architectures and platforms. Cloud workloads refers to those that are usually run by customers inside a cloud provider. For our purposes this means modern operating systems with most I/O handled by paravirtualised devices (i.e. virtio), no requirement for legacy devices, and 64-bit CPUs.

The libvirt Cloud Hypervisor (CH) driver is intended to be run as a session driver without privileges. The cloud-hypervisor binary itself should be setcap cap_net_admin+ep (in order to create tap interfaces). Though, system-wide connection URI is also supported.

Expected connection URI would be

    ch:///session         (local access to per-user instance)
    ch:///system          (local access to system instance)

But all other transport modes are supported too (see documentation).

## Location of configuration files

The CH driver comes with sane default values. However, during its initialization it reads a configuration file which offers system administrator or an user to override some of that default. The location of the file depends on the connection URI, as follows:

ch:///system | /etc/libvirt/ch.conf
ch:///session | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/libvirt/ch/ch.conf

If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set in the environment, it defaults to $HOME/.config.

## Example guest domain XML configurations

The Cloud Hypervisor driver in libvirt is in its early stage under active development only supporting a limited number of Cloud Hypervisor features.

Firmware is from hypervisor-fw

Note: Only virtio devices are supported

    <domain type='kvm'>
      <name>cloudhypervisor</name>
      <uuid>4dea22b3-1d52-d8f3-2516-782e98ab3fa0</uuid>
      <os>
        <type>hvm</type>
        <kernel>hypervisor-fw</kernel>
      </os>
      <memory unit='G'>2</memory>
      <devices>
        <disk type='file'>
          <source file='disk.raw'/>
          <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
        </disk>
        <interface type='ethernet'>
          <model type='virtio'/>
        </interface>
      </devices>
      <vcpu>2</vcpu>
    </domain>