alioth/README.md
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# Alioth
Alioth is a toy virtual machine monitor based on KVM. Complementary to the
official tutorial [Using the KVM API](https://lwn.net/Articles/658511/), it demonstrates
detailed steps for building a type-2 hypervisor and booting a Linux guest kernel.
## Get started
* Build Alioth from source,
```sh
cargo build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
```
* Make an initramfs with [u-root](https://github.com/u-root/u-root?tab=readme-ov-file#examples),
* Boot a Linux kernel with 2 CPUs and 4 GiB memory:
```sh
cargo run --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -- \
-l info \
--log-to-file \
run \
--kernel /path/to/vmlinuz \
--cmd-line "console=ttyS0" \
--initramfs /path/to/initramfs \
--mem-size 4G \
--num-cpu=2
```
## Disclaimer
Disclaimer: Alioth is not an officially supported Google product.