Introduction This is the third part of the tutorial “Hypervisor From Scratch“. You may have noticed that the previous parts have steadily been getting more complicated. This part should teach you how to get started with creating your own VMM, we go to demonstrate how to interact with the VMM from Windows User-mode (IOCTL Dispatcher), then we solve the problems with the affinity and running code in a special core. Finally, we get familiar with initializing VMXON Regions and VMCS…
Posts published in September 2018
Introduction MONITOR and MWAIT are using when the CPU needs to be stopped executing the instruction and enter an implementation-dependent optimized state until some special event happens. MONITOR sets up an address range used to monitor write-back stores while MWAIT enables a logical processor to enter into an optimized state while waiting for a write-back store to the address range set up by MONITOR instruction. MWAIT and MONITOR may be executed only at privilege level 0, if you use these…
