crosvm
E40778
crosvm is a lightweight, security-focused virtual machine monitor developed by Google to run Linux and other workloads efficiently and safely on ChromeOS.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| crosvm canonical | 3 |
| Google crosvm | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T314869 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: crosvm Context triple: [ChromeOS, supportsContainerTechnology, crosvm]
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A.
ChromeOS
ChromeOS is Google's lightweight, cloud-centric operating system designed primarily for Chromebooks and focused on running web applications and Android apps securely and efficiently.
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B.
Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux is a lightweight, security-focused Linux distribution designed for simplicity, resource efficiency, and containerized environments.
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C.
Xen
Xen is an open-source type-1 hypervisor that enables efficient virtualization of multiple operating systems on the same physical hardware.
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D.
Dracut
Dracut is a town in northeastern Massachusetts, United States, known for its suburban character and proximity to the city of Lowell.
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E.
Btrfs
Btrfs is a modern copy-on-write Linux file system designed for advanced features like snapshots, checksumming, and efficient storage management.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: crosvm Target entity description: crosvm is a lightweight, security-focused virtual machine monitor developed by Google to run Linux and other workloads efficiently and safely on ChromeOS.
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A.
ChromeOS
ChromeOS is Google's lightweight, cloud-centric operating system designed primarily for Chromebooks and focused on running web applications and Android apps securely and efficiently.
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B.
Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux is a lightweight, security-focused Linux distribution designed for simplicity, resource efficiency, and containerized environments.
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C.
Xen
Xen is an open-source type-1 hypervisor that enables efficient virtualization of multiple operating systems on the same physical hardware.
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D.
Dracut
Dracut is a town in northeastern Massachusetts, United States, known for its suburban character and proximity to the city of Lowell.
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E.
Btrfs
Btrfs is a modern copy-on-write Linux file system designed for advanced features like snapshots, checksumming, and efficient storage management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
VMM
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ virtual machine monitor ⓘ |
| architectureSupport |
ARM
ⓘ
surface form:
ARM64
x86_64 ⓘ |
| designedFor |
ChromeOS Linux (Crostini)
ⓘ
running Linux applications on ChromeOS ⓘ running untrusted workloads safely ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| feature |
PCI device emulation
ⓘ
VFIO passthrough support ⓘ ballooning support ⓘ multi-queue networking ⓘ snapshot and restore support ⓘ virtio-block ⓘ virtio-console ⓘ virtio-gpu ⓘ virtio-input ⓘ virtio-net ⓘ |
| focus |
lightweight virtualization
ⓘ
performance ⓘ security ⓘ |
| license |
BSD license
ⓘ
surface form:
BSD-style license
|
| maintainer | ChromeOS team at Google ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
ChromeOS
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ |
| platform |
ChromeOS
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | Rust ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Rust ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Firecracker
ⓘ
KVM ⓘ QEMU ⓘ Rust-VMM project ⓘ |
| repositoryHosting | GitHub ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
device sandboxing
ⓘ
jail-based isolation ⓘ minimal attack surface ⓘ process sandboxing ⓘ seccomp filters ⓘ |
| supports |
Android workloads
ⓘ
KVM-based virtualization ⓘ Linux guests ⓘ container-based workloads ⓘ |
| useCase |
ChromeOS Linux development environment
ⓘ
desktop application virtualization ⓘ server-style workloads on ChromeOS ⓘ |
| uses |
KVM
ⓘ
Rust type safety ⓘ virtio devices ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: crosvm Description of subject: crosvm is a lightweight, security-focused virtual machine monitor developed by Google to run Linux and other workloads efficiently and safely on ChromeOS.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Google crosvm