Introduction Hello and welcome back to the fifth part of the “Hypervisor From Scratch” tutorial series. Today we will be configuring our previously allocated Virtual Machine Control Structure (VMCS) and in the last, we execute VMLAUNCH and enter to our hardware-virtualized world! Before reading the rest of this part, you have to read the previous parts as they are really dependent. The full source code of this tutorial is available on GitHub : [https://github.com/SinaKarvandi/Hypervisor-From-Scratch] Note: Please keep in mind that…
Posts published in December 2018
Introduction If you’ve ever had experience with developing your own hypervisor from scratch then you definitely faced with the problems of layout checking. What makes it hard to develop a hypervisor is the fact that Intel has a small number of errors for a huge checklist described in [CHAPTER 26] VM ENTRIES from Intel’s 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual including: 26.2 CHECKS ON VMX CONTROLS AND HOST-STATE AREA 26.3 CHECKING AND LOADING GUEST STATE 26.4 LOADING MSRS 26.5 EVENT…