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README: Remove KVM exclusivity

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With our hypervisor crate we are no aiming to be KVM exclusive.

Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
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Cloud Hypervisor is an open source Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that runs on top of [KVM](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt).
The project focuses on exclusively running modern, cloud workloads, on top of a limited set of hardware architectures and platforms.
Cloud workloads refers to those that are usually run by customers inside a cloud provider. For our purposes this means modern
Linux* distributions with most I/O handled by paravirtualised devices (i.e. virtio), no requirement for legacy devices and recent CPUs and KVM.
Cloud workloads refers to those that are usually run by customers inside a cloud provider. For our purposes this means modern operating systems with most I/O handled by paravirtualised devices (i.e. virtio), no requirement for legacy devices, and 64-bit CPUs.
Cloud Hypervisor is implemented in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/) and is based on the [rust-vmm](https://github.com/rust-vmm) crates.
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### High Level
* KVM and KVM only based
* KVM based
* Minimal emulation
* Low latency
* Low memory footprint