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OpenVMM – A New VMM for Windows and Linux, Written in Rust

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Vogtinator ◴[17 Oct 24 13:26 UTC] No.41869463[source]▶
Cargo.lock has 8750 lines. Is that normal for something like this?

For comparison, QEMU basically just needs glibc, glib and zlib for basic functionality.

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1. pornel ◴[17 Oct 24 14:18 UTC] No.41869918[source]▶
Cargo.lock is not ideal for this. It needs to be portable, and cover all kinds of builds and test runs, so it contains a superset of all dependencies for all platforms (recursively), as well as development-only dependencies, and everything needed for all optional features.

Running `cargo tree -e normal` gives a more realistic subset of what is actually used, and `cargo tree -e normal --no-default-features` gives you the "basically just needs" subset.

Another thing to keep in mind that Rust projects are very often split into many small packages (from the same authors, published as part of the same project). That isn't more code or more dependencies, but merely delivering code not as one monolith, but as modular components.