Exercise preparation: Building and running the hypervisor, and navigating code

  • You should choose a platform to work on: Intel or AMD.
    • Intel: Use the rust: cargo xtask bochs-intel task
    • AMD: Use the rust: cargo xtask bochs-amd task
  • We assume you are able to:
    • jump to definitions with F12 on VSCode
    • build the hypervisor
    • run it on Bochs. Output should look like this: 
      INFO: Starting the hypervisor on CPU#0
...
ERROR: panicked at 'not yet implemented: E#1-1', hypervisor/src/hardware_vt/svm.rs:49:9
    • If not, follow the instructions in BUILDING
  • Primary code flow for the exercises in this chapter 
    #![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
// main.rs
efi_main() {
    start_hypervisor_on_all_processors() {
        start_hypervisor()
    }
}

//hypervisor.rs
start_hypervisor() {
    vm.vt.enable()                      // E#1: Enable HW VT
    vm.vt.initialize()                  // E#2: Configure behaviour of HW VT
    start_vm() {
        vm.vt.revert_registers()        // E#3: Set up guest state based on a snapshot file
        loop {
            // Runs the guest until VM exit
            exit_reason = vm.vt.run()

            // ... (Handles the VM exit)
        }
    }
}
}