Simple KVM firmware

This project is an experiment and should not be used production workloads.

This repository contains a simple KVM firmware that is designed to be launched from anything that supports loading ELF binaries and running them with the Linux kernel loading standard.

The ultimate goal is to be able to use this "firmware" to be able to load a bootloader from within a disk image.

Currently it will directly load a kernel from a disk image that follows the Boot Loader Specification

Although this project has been developed using Firecracker as it does not currently support resetting the virtio block device it is not possible to boot all the way into the OS.

Building

To compile:

cargo xbuild --release --target target.json

The result will be in:

target/target/release/kvm-fw

Debug builds do not currently function.

Running

Works with Firecracker as a drop in replacement for the Linux kernel. It does not work with crosvm as crosvm has a hardcoded kernel function start address.

Features

• virtio (MMIO) block support
• GPT parsing (to find EFI system partition)
• FAT12/16/32 directory traversal and file reading
• bzImage loader
• "Boot Loader Specification" parser

TODO

• PCI support
• PE32 loader
• EFI runtime services stub implmentations

Testing

"cargo test" needs disk images from make-test-disks.sh

It also requires super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.02s10.iso which you can download from:

http://download2.nust.na/pub4/sourceforge/s/su/supergrub2/2.02s10/super_grub2_disk_2.02s10/super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.02s10.iso

sha1sum: 2b6bec29fb696cce96c47895f2263d45e2dc822e

And clear-28660-kvm.img:

https://download.clearlinux.org/releases/28660/clear/clear-28660-kvm.img.xz

sha1sum: 5fc086643dea4b20c59a795a262e0d2400fab15f

Security

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