vmm

Tiny VMM that boots Linux

Usage

A sample kernel config and init is present in the contrib directory. An initramfs can be created like so:

$ cc contrib/init.c -o init -static
# cpio takes the file list from stdin
$ echo init | cpio -o -H newc > initramfs

NOTE: By default, the code prints out every byte received on the serial ports, which can be suppressed by redirecting stderr to /dev/null

cargo run <KERNEL_IMAGE> <INITRAMFS>

Resources

• https://lwn.net/Articles/658511

• https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

• https://crosvm.dev/book

• https://katacontainers.io

• https://david942j.blogspot.com/2018/10/note-learning-kvm-implement-your-own.html

• https://github.com/dpw/kvm-hello-world

• https://mergeboard.com/blog/2-qemu-microvm-docker

• https://github.com/naoki9911/zig-vmm

• https://github.com/bobuhiro11/gokvm

• https://github.com/b0bleet/zvisor

• https://zserge.com/posts/kvm

• https://github.com/sysprog21/kvm-host

• https://github.com/18AX/blackhv

• https://gist.github.com/zserge/ae9098a75b2b83a1299d19b79b5fe488