KubeVirt v1.8 Brings Multi-Hypervisor Support and Confidential Computing to Kubernetes

Matt Saunders — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Version 1.8 of KubeVirt was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The release is aligned with Kubernetes v1.35, and the most significant addition is a Hypervisor Abstraction Layer (HAL) that allows the project to use backends other than KVM. In an announcement post on the CNCF blog, the maintainers announced the new release, broken down by their SIGs.

By Matt Saunders

QCon London 2026: Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:02:00 GMT

Unikraft CEO Felipe Huici demonstrated waking the one-millionth VM on a commodity server in ten milliseconds at QCon London. The talk traced a decade from academic unikernel research to a platform offering stateless scale-to-zero VMs with full isolation. Using Firecracker and VM snapshots, sleeping workloads resume instantly, turning server density from a hardware problem into a scheduling one.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

InfoQ - Virtual Machines

KubeVirt v1.8 Brings Multi-Hypervisor Support and Confidential Computing to Kubernetes

QCon London 2026: Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server