Mini SVM

Mini SVM is a simple hypervisor based on SVM, currently targetting Linux. Part of the hypervisor, which performs privileged operations, is implemented as a kernel module. The rest is implemented as a user program which modifies the VMCB, guest physical memory, guest page tables, etc.

Components

• Privileged HV code: it implements the hypervisor part which performs privileged operations (vmrun, physical memory allocations).

• User space HV code: setups VMCB, guest physical memory, guest page tables, registers.

• VM program: it's copied from the user space HV to guest physical memory.

Running

1. Modify the kernel module makefile, and build it
2. Build the user space HV code.
3. Build the vm program
4. Load the kernel module: taskset 0x1 sudo insmod mini-svm.ko
5. Run the HV user space program: taskset 0x1 sudo ./hv-user-space-program