Linux Container for ChromeOS

Posted on Jul 12, 2018

Recently, ChromeOS started to support Linux applications on ChomeOS. Google hasn’t allowed ChromeOS to run native applications due to security reasons. Finally, they found a way to support Linux applications 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 the 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 for their products, which is a good news for the Rust community.