--- title: Quick hack: Experiments with crosvm | daily.dev description: A hands-on experiment running crosvm, Google's Rust-based KVM monitor from Chromium OS, on Fedora 26 for application isolation research. The post walks through... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/quick-hack-experiments-with-crosvm-qftk6yxgz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Quick hack: Experiments with crosvm | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on experiment running crosvm, Google's Rust-based KVM monitor from Chromium OS, on Fedora 26 for application isolation research. The post walks through... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/quick-hack-experiments-with-crosvm-qftk6yxgz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qFTK6yXGz.png og:image:alt: Quick hack: Experiments with crosvm og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Quick hack: Experiments with crosvm **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on experiment running crosvm, Google's Rust-based KVM monitor from Chromium OS, on Fedora 26 for application isolation research. The post walks through building the Linux kernel (v4.12), minijail, and crosvm from source, generating a rootfs with debootstrap, and launching a VM — working around the lack of minijail distro packages using linker environment variables. Future work targets Wayland guest-host compositor integration and efficient GPU passthrough. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I build and run crosvm outside Chromium OS without installing minijail system-wide? Clone minijail from the Android source tree and build it locally, then pass its path via LIBRARY_PATH when building crosvm with cargo, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH when running it. The full flow is: build a Linux kernel (v4.12 tested), build minijail, run `LIBRARY_PATH=~/src/minijail cargo build` inside the crosvm repo, create an ext4 rootfs with debootstrap, then launch with `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/src/minijail ./target/debug/crosvm run`. _Developers experimenting with Linux virtualization and sandboxing share findings like these on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Sandbox AI coding agents with microVMs on Fedora Linux](https://daily.dev/posts/sandbox-ai-coding-agents-with-microvms-on-fedora-linux-xfe5hlygw) · Fedora Magazine · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Your Container Is Not a Sandbox](https://daily.dev/posts/your-container-is-not-a-sandbox-dkskd3kl8) · Lobsters · 26 upvotes · 1 comments - [We rebuilt the Linux microVM stack on Apple Silicon](https://daily.dev/posts/we-rebuilt-the-linux-microvm-stack-on-apple-silicon-2hmxgetth) · Encore · 21 upvotes · 2 comments - [New Linux kernel flaw allows VM escape on Intel, AMD devices](https://daily.dev/posts/new-linux-kernel-flaw-allows-vm-escape-on-intel-amd-devices-pgteqqq1i) · BleepingComputer · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/quick-hack-experiments-with-crosvm-qftk6yxgz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Quick hack: Experiments with crosvm","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/quick-hack-experiments-with-crosvm-qftk6yxgz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/quick-hack-experiments-with-crosvm-qftk6yxgz"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:56:23.099Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:30:18.906Z","description":"A hands-on experiment running crosvm, Google's Rust-based KVM monitor from Chromium OS, on Fedora 26 for application isolation research. 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