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# Alioth
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Alioth is a toy virtual machine monitor based on KVM. Complementary to the
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official tutorial [Using the KVM API](https://lwn.net/Articles/658511/), it demonstrates
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detailed steps for building a type-2 hypervisor and booting a Linux guest kernel.
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![GitHub Actions Workflow Status](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/google/alioth/rust.yml)
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![GitHub code size in bytes](https://img.shields.io/github/languages/code-size/google/alioth)
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![Crates.io Version](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/alioth)
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![Crates.io License](https://img.shields.io/crates/l/alioth)
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## Get started
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Alioth is an experimental [KVM](https://docs.kernel.org/virt/kvm/api.html)-based
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type-2 hypervisor (virtual machine monitor) in Rust implemented from scratch.
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* Build Alioth from source,
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> [!IMPORTANT]
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>
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> Disclaimer: Alioth is not an officially supported Google product.
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```sh
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cargo build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
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```
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## Quick start
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* Make an initramfs with [u-root](https://github.com/u-root/u-root?tab=readme-ov-file#examples),
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* Boot a Linux kernel with 2 CPUs and 4 GiB memory:
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- Install Alioth from source,
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```sh
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cargo run --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -- \
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-l info \
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--log-to-file \
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cargo install alioth-cli --git https://github.com/google/alioth.git
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```
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- Make an initramfs with
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[u-root](https://github.com/u-root/u-root?tab=readme-ov-file#examples).
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- Boot a Linux kernel with 2 CPUs and 4 GiB memory,
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```sh
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alioth -l info --log-to-file \
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run \
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--kernel /path/to/vmlinuz \
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--cmd-line "console=ttyS0" \
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--initramfs /path/to/initramfs \
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--mem-size 4G \
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--num-cpu=2
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--num-cpu 2
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```
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## Features
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## Disclaimer
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- Runs on `x86_64` and `aarch64` (WIP).
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- Boots confidential VMs with AMD SEV, SEV-ES, or SEV-SNP, see
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[coco.md](docs/coco.md) for details.
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- VirtIO devices
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- `net` backed by a tap device,
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- `vsock` backed by host `/dev/vsock`,
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- `blk` backed by a raw-formatted image,
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- `entropy` backed by host `/dev/uramdom`,
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- `fs` backed by [virtiofsd](https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd) with
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experimental Direct Access (DAX).
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- Other devices
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- serial console: 16450 on `x86_64`, pl011 on `aarch64`,
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- [fw_cfg](https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/specs/fw_cfg.html) (QEMU Firmware
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Configuration Device),
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- [pvpanic](https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/specs/pvpanic.html).
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Disclaimer: Alioth is not an officially supported Google product.
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## TODOs
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- [ ] create GIC V3 and ITS on `aarch64` to enable MSI-X for VirtIO devices,
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- [ ] device passthrough with VFIO,
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- [ ] finish error handling refactoring work started in
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[#37](https://github.com/google/alioth/pull/37),
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- [ ] explore a better solution to ACPI DSDT to replace the pre-compiled AML
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bytes,
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- [ ] increase test coverage,
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- [ ] add missing documents,
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- [ ] (long term) port Alioth to Apple's
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[Hypervisor](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor)
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framework,
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- [ ] performance, performance, and performance!
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## Acknowledgment
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The virtualization implementation in Alioth takes the following projects as
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references,
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- [QEMU](https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu.git)
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- [crosvm](https://chromium.googlesource.com/crosvm/crosvm/)
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- [Cloud Hypervisor](https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor)
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- [xhyve](https://github.com/machyve/xhyve)
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The error handling practice ([#37](https://github.com/google/alioth/pull/37)) is
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inspired by [GreptimeDB](https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb)'s
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[`stack_trace_debug`](https://greptimedb.rs/common_macro/attr.stack_trace_debug.html).
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