A really simple and lightweight x64 hypervisor written in C for Windows for Intel processors.
- IDT Shadowing
- EPT violation handling via #VE
- EPTP switching VMFUNC and a small hooking example included
We use 3 EPT pointers, one for executable pages, one for readwrite pages, and last one for normal usage. (see below)
- vcpu.c: in setup_vmcs() where we initially setup the VMCS fields, we then set the relevant fields (VE_INFO_ADDRESS, EPTP_LIST_ADDRESS, ...)
- x64.asm: which contains the #VE handler (__ept_violation) then does the usual interrupt handling and then calls __ept_handle_violation (ept.c) where it actually does what it needs to do.
- ept.c: in __ept_handle_violation (#VE handler not VM-exit), usually the processor will do the #VE handler instead of the VM-exit way, but sometimes it won't do so if it's delivering another exception. This is very rare.
- ept.c: while handling the violation via #VE, we switch vmfunc only when we detect that the faulting address is one of our interest (e.g. a hooked page), then we determine which EPTP we want and do vmfunc with that EPTP index.
(... to avoid a lot of violations, we just mark the page as execute only and replace the _final_ page frame
number so that it just goes straight ahead to our trampoline)
Since we use 3 EPT pointers, and since the page needs to be read and written to sometimes (e.g. patchguard verification), we also need to catch RW access to the page and then switch the EPTP appropriately according to the access, if it's a read access, then we need to give it the original page pfn, otherwise give it the normal one as no harm will be done anyway. Do also note that we always mark the page as "RW" because the processor does not support the write-only bit.
- Linux kernel (KVM)
- HyperPlatform
If you think I hacked some of your code and I missed you, please send me an e-mail.
MIT (The MIT License)