# crosvm - The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor crosvm is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) based on Linux’s KVM hypervisor, with a focus on simplicity, security, and speed. crosvm is intended to run Linux guests, originally as a security boundary for running native applications on the Chrome OS platform. Compared to QEMU, crosvm doesn’t emulate architectures or real hardware, instead concentrating on paravirtualized devices, such as the virtio standard. crosvm is currently used to run Linux/Android guests on Chrome OS devices. - [Documentation](https://google.github.io/crosvm/) - [Source code](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/) - [API doc](https://google.github.io/crosvm/doc/crosvm/), useful for searching API. - For contribution, see [the contributor guide](https://google.github.io/crosvm/contributing.html). Mirror repository is available at [GitHub](https://github.com/google/crosvm) for your convenience, but we don't accept bug reports or pull requests there. - [Issue tracker](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:OS%3ESystems%3EContainers) 