Intel will no longer continue to develop its open source hypervisor HAXM (Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager). The company announced this via GitHub commit. HAXM is a hardware-based virtualization engine available on Linux, Windows, macOS, and NetBSD, and is primarily used in Android emulation and QEMU VMs.
The exact reasons for the project going out from the GitHub commit by Intel developer Robert Dower not out. It only states that HAXM “is no longer maintained by Intel”. In addition, it was found “that there are known security gaps in (HAXM).” The Post is also silent on what these are. From now on, patches for the hypervisor will no longer be accepted, it concludes. The repository is now archived.
HAXM runs as a kernel-mode driver on the host operating system and has been particularly popular with Android developers on Windows systems with Intel hardware. So far, nothing is known about a possible future of the open source project, such as about forks.
(jvo)
