Intel Pushes Open Source Hypervisor With Cloud Giants

Intel, along with cloud giants Amazon and Google, is working on an open source hypervisor based on the rust-vmm project. The chipmaker discussed this and several other open source efforts at its Open Source Technology Summit, which kicked off yesterday. The company “is and has been one of the largest contributors to open source,” said Imad Sousou, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of system software products. “Intel is the No. 1 contributor to the Linux kernel. We write 10% to 12% of the Linux kernel code.” For the record: Red Hat is No. 2, and it contributes about 6%, according to Sousou. Intel hosts this summit every year. And if you’re wondering (as we were) why you’ve never heard of it, it’s because for the past 15 years it’s been a closed, internal event. This year Intel opened up the Open Source Technology Summit and invited customers, technology partners, and the press. It also added keynote speakers from Alibaba, Amazon, AT&T, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Red Hat, among other companies.