Recently, ChromeOS started to support Linux applications on ChomeOS. Google hasn’t allowed ChromeOS to run native applications due to security reason. Finally, they found a way to support Linux application through the container technology.

It is worth to read a discussion on CrOSVM on Hacker News because the original author joined the discussion. Here is the article about ChromeOS Linux container. https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-os-could-be-getting-containers-for-running-linux-vms/

There is a Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9mrR2tqVbQ

Here is the readme about CrOSVM:

The interesting thing is that it is implemented with Rust. Google now seriously uses Rust of their product, which is a good news for the Rust community.