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.