hyperlight-dev/hyperlight

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Hyperlight is a lightweight Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) designed to be embedded within applications. It enables safe execution of untrusted code within micro virtual machines with very low latency and minimal overhead.

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Merged PRs (30d): 48

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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196 open issues indexed

Weekly Coverage Failure - 23 Open

area/ci-periodics area/testing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1522 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2026
Enable all memory guard page tests on windows Open

good first issue lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1508 · Opened Jun 4, 2026
Make Benchmarks Visible Open

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hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1496 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 1, 2026
Snapshot follow up items Open

lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1479 · 1 comment · Opened May 28, 2026
Allow changing guest log level after sandbox creation Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1475 · Opened May 27, 2026
Track performance impact of running native code in Hyperlight Open

area/performance lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1462 · 2 comments · Opened May 18, 2026
Use workspace dependencies for shared deps across hyperlight crates Open

good first issue help-wanted lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1454 · Opened May 14, 2026
vmem: make AnotherSpace a follow-through, not a terminator, in the walker Open

area/API Guest-COW kind/refactor

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1410 · Opened Apr 23, 2026
vmem: make SpaceReferenceMapping per-arch and fold space_aware_map dispatch Open

area/API Guest-COW kind/refactor

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1409 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 23, 2026
Make elf loading respect phdr VAs Open

lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1408 · Opened Apr 23, 2026
Unify sandbox types: initialize directly from snapshot and introduce HostFunctionRegistry Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1402 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Consider flusing all stdio streams on VM exit. Open

lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1400 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Consider adding features to enable selected picolibc options Open

lifecycle/blocked-on-author

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1399 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
RUSTSEC-2026-0097: Rand is unsound with a custom logger using `rand::rng()` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1372 · Opened Apr 13, 2026
Surrogate binary: extraction location and Authenticode signing Open

lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1342 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 24, 2026
Pin nightly rustfmt version to avoid cross-platform formatting inconsistencies Open

area/infrastructure lifecycle/confirmed question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1325 · Opened Mar 19, 2026
Why do we have this distinction of what causes a crashdump? Open

lifecycle/confirmed question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1280 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2026
What is the expected lifecycle of SandboxRuntimeConfig? Open

lifecycle/confirmed question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1279 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Allow specifying guest trace level for different modules Open

lifecycle/confirmed question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1269 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Snapshot-First Sandbox Lifecycle Open

lifecycle/blocked-on-author

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1268 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 2, 2026
Guest Copy on Write Followups Open

lifecycle/confirmed

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1261 · 5 assignees · Opened Feb 25, 2026
Fix duplicate guest traces Open

area/performance area/testing lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1230 · Opened Feb 11, 2026
Rethink debug lifecycle Open

lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1210 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 4, 2026
Rethink `dbg_mem_access_fn` Open

area/API lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1208 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 3, 2026
Update CI to use just commands rather than have 2 sets of steps that have to be in sync Open

area/infrastructure help-wanted lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1201 · Opened Jan 29, 2026
Make it easier to create guests Open

area/documentation lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1191 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Generate coverage reports Open

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hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1190 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Enable `miri` tests on Windows Open

area/testing lifecycle/confirmed

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1149 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Implement Additional tests for Guest Mapping Open

good first issue lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1131 · Opened Dec 19, 2025
Remove possibility of silent errors in `vmem::TableOps` Open

lifecycle/confirmed

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1128 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 18, 2025
Improve Test coverage of memory mapping Open

area/testing lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1123 · Opened Dec 17, 2025
Improve guest exception handling to prevent infinite loops Open

lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1118 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 15, 2025
Reconsider making rust nightly job standalone Open

area/infrastructure lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1108 · Opened Dec 11, 2025
When using the HYPERLIGHT_COMPONENT_MACRO_DEBUG flag with multiple calls the files are not loaded properly Open

help-wanted lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1107 · Opened Dec 11, 2025
Fuzz on Windows Open

good first issue lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1082 · Opened Dec 8, 2025
Follow up ideas from #924 Open

lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1078 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 5, 2025
Check stack frames are correctly cleared when `hlt` is called Open

area/security lifecycle/confirmed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1074 · Opened Dec 4, 2025
Fix guest logging `StackOverflow` issue Open

area/security lifecycle/confirmed

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1065 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 2, 2025
Remove misleading boolean return from `InterruptHandle::kill()` Open

lifecycle/confirmed

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1036 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 21, 2025
Analyze codebase and ensure logs/traces level is appropriate Open

area/infrastructure area/testing

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1031 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 19, 2025
Change the logs format Open

area/infrastructure area/testing

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1030 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 19, 2025
Create example for correlation ID propagation down to hyperlight calls Open

area/documentation area/infrastructure area/testing help-wanted

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1029 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 19, 2025
Make the guest Trace buffers more compact when transfering to the guest Open

lifecycle/confirmed

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1010 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 5, 2025
Ensure C compatibility for guest tracing Open

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hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1009 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 5, 2025
Allow configuration of guest trace storage Open

good first issue help-wanted lifecycle/confirmed

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#1008 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 5, 2025
Replace generic HyperlightError::Error variant with specific error types to improve sandbox poisoning accuracy Open

area/security lifecycle/confirmed

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#998 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 30, 2025
RUSTSEC-2025-0083: `unic-ucd-bidi` is unmaintained Open

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#987 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 27, 2025
RUSTSEC-2025-0098: `unic-ucd-version` is unmaintained Open

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#988 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 27, 2025
RUSTSEC-2025-0080: `unic-common` is unmaintained Open

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#986 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 27, 2025
RUSTSEC-2025-0075: `unic-char-range` is unmaintained Open

hyperlight-dev/hyperlight#985 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 27, 2025

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