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+# Cloud Hypervisor Credits and Thanks
+
+The Cloud Hypervisor code is based on the [rust-vmm](https://github.com/rust-vmm), [Firecracker](https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/) and [crosvm](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/)
+projects implementations.
+
+Our thanks go to the contributors of those projects:
+
+## crosvm
+
+* [Zach Reizner](https://github.com/zachreizner) <zachr@chromium.org>
+* [Dylan Reid](https://github.com/dgreid) <dgreid@chromium.org>
+* [Daniel Verkamp](https://github.com/danielverkamp) <dverkamp@chromium.org>
+* [Stephen Barber](https://github.com/smibarber) <smbarber@chromium.org>
+* [Chirantan Ekbote](https://github.com/jynnantonix) <chirantan@chromium.org>
+* [Jason D. Clinton](https://github.com/jclinton) <jclinton@chromium.org>
+* Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
+
+## Firecracker
+
+See the [Firecracker CREDITS](https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/master/CREDITS.md).
+
+## rust-vmm
+
+* [Andreea Florescu](https://github.com/andreeaflorescu) <<fandree@amazon.com>>
+* [Paolo Bonzini](https://github.com/zachreizner) <pbonzini@redhat.com>
+* [Jiang Liu](https://github.com/jiangliu) <gerry@linux.alibaba.com>