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, it demonstrates detailed steps for building a type-2 hypervisor and booting a Linux guest kernel.

Get started

  • Build Alioth from source,

    cargo build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    
  • Make an initramfs with u-root,

  • 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

Disclaimer: Alioth is not an officially supported Google product.