1*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker# crosvm - The ChromeOS Virtual Machine Monitor 2*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 3*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workercrosvm is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) based on Linux’s KVM hypervisor, with a focus on 4*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workersimplicity, security, and speed. crosvm is intended to run Linux guests, originally as a security 5*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerboundary for running native applications on the ChromeOS platform. Compared to QEMU, crosvm doesn’t 6*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workeremulate architectures or real hardware, instead concentrating on paravirtualized devices, such as 7*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerthe virtio standard. 8*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 9*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workercrosvm is currently used to run Linux/Android guests on ChromeOS devices. 10*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 11*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker- [Documentation](https://crosvm.dev/book/) 12*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker- [Announcements](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/crosvm-announce) 13*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker- [Developer Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/crosvm-dev) 14*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker- [#crosvm on matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#crosvm:matrix.org) 15*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker- [Source code](https://chromium.googlesource.com/crosvm/crosvm/) 16*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker - [API doc](https://crosvm.dev/doc/crosvm/), useful for searching API. 17*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker - For contribution, see [the contributor guide](https://crosvm.dev/book/contributing/). Mirror 18*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker repository is available at [GitHub](https://github.com/google/crosvm) for your convenience, but 19*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker we don't accept bug reports or pull requests there. 20*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker- [Public issue tracker](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=status:open%20componentid:1161302) 21*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker - For Googlers: See [go/crosvm#filing-bugs](https://goto.google.com/crosvm#filing-bugs). 22*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 23*bb4ee6a4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 24
