Cloud Hypervisorthe open source virtual machines focused on cloud workloads, has introduced a measure at least striking in its latest version, and that is that it is that will not accept contributions containing code generated by artificial intelligence tools. The announcement comes with the publication of Cloud Hypervisor 48, a new version of the software in which this new policy is released together with various technical improvements.
According to the official documentation, the veto to the contributions from language models seeks “Avoid ambiguity in compliance with licenses and optimize the use of limited project resources, especially in review and maintenance of code”. The initiative includes the growing restlessness on the use of code generated by AI in open developments and covers from possible legal problems derived from the use of repositories with restrictive licenses, to the entry of “garbage code” difficult to maintain.
Said which, even within the project itself The difficult prohibition is recognizedgiven the advance of the code generated by the. Thus, Philipp Schuster, by Cyberus Technology, warns that politics could “violate the first day” because it is impossible to ensure that a contributor has not used AI to improve its code. For their part, other developers raised to introduce templates in the applications for incorporation that require confirming the acceptance of the rules.
It should be noted in this regard, however, that There is no generalized consensus around this type of measuresnot even in the scope of the development of open source projects. Without going any further, Linux’s greats are overturned in offering solutions enhanced by artificial intelligence for software development, and not only for their clients. A recent example is that of Red Hat with Fedora and Gnome, and was not exempt from controversy.
Speaking of Red Hat, the company was together with Amazon, Google and Intel one of the drivers of Cloud Hypervisor back in 2018. It is a project whose initial objective understood sharing virtualization components written in the Rust programming language, considered as more efficient and safe. Later Intel took leadership in a more specific direction that led to this hypervisor, thought determined for cloud infrastructure.
But that was not the end of the Cloud Hypervisor road, which since 2021 became part of the Linux Foundation portfolio, with the participation of weight actors such as Microsoft, Alibaba, ARM or Bytedance, to which more recently has joined companies such as AMD, Ampere, Cyberus Technology and Tencent Cloud. Today is presented as a Light VMM that runs on KVM and Microsoft’s hypervisorused mainly in public clouds for IAAS services.
