Library VMM

Experimenting with building library VMM in Rust. Unclear what this will turn out to be.

License

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

New to Rust?!

• Here you can find out how to install Rust on your system.
• This is a very clear point to start off learning Rust or to find more details about it.

Installing project dependencies

$ ./scripts/install-deps

• Logout and login again to make group modifications to be effective.

How to run the unit tests

$ cd src/testing
$ make

Todo

• Basic VMCS handling support.
• Add a first unit test.
• Add basic EPT page table handling.
• Add support for managing MSR and IO bitmaps.
• Add support for skipping instructions.
• VMLaunch/VMResume support.
• Add basic VMCS validation code.
• Port kvm-unit-tests tests.
• Port KVM kernel selftests.
• Add NMI support.
• Add support for SGX virtualization.
• Add processor craziness mitigations for speculation attacks.
• Add MCE handling.
• Add support for VPID.
• MONITOR & MWAIT + APERF/MPERF emulation.
• Add CPUID emulation.
• Add PLE support.
• Add TSC scaling support.
• Add VMCS shadowing support.
• Add preemption timer support.
• Add PML support.
• Instruction emulation.
• Create a library OS to use it for testing.
• Add support for request-interrupt-window.
• Add support for Interrupt on entry settings.
• Add support for managing IOMMU page tables.
• Add support for hardware posted interrupt.
• Add support for APICv.
• Add support for SVM.
• Add better support for non-root guest mode code.
• Extend the VMCS validation checks in (${}/src/x86_64/instructions/vmcs.rs).
  • 26.2 VMX controls and host state.
    • 26.2.1 VMX controls.
      • 26.2.1.2 VM Exit control validation.
      • 26.2.1.3 VM Entry control validation.
    • 26.2.2 Host controls and MSRs.
    • 26.2.3 Host segment and descriptor tables.
    • 26.2.4 Address space size.
  • 26.3 Guest state.