Alioth is a toy virtual machine monitor based on KVM. Complementary to the official tutorial Using the KVM API, it demonstrates detailed steps for building a type-2 hypervisor and booting a Linux guest kernel.
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Build Alioth from source,
cargo build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
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Make an initramfs with u-root,
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Boot a Linux kernel with 2 CPUs and 4 GiB memory:
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: Alioth is not an officially supported Google product.