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* Logging boot activities and interacting with the guest. * Logging boot activities and interacting with the guest.
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* Booting Ubuntu on a bare-metal.
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Motivation Motivation
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There are numerous open source hypervisors with small and easy-to-study implementations, but those that support booting operating systems as UEFI drivers are still not many. There are numerous open source hypervisors with small and easy-to-study implementations, but those that support booting operating systems as UEFI drivers are still not many.
Given the universality of UEFI systems on the AMD64 ecosystem and the unique ability to monitor, attack and protect the system throughout operating system startup on bare-metal systems, the authors believe that having the understanding and being able to author this type of hypervisors are valuable for research. Given the universality of UEFI systems on the AMD64 ecosystem and the unique ability to monitor, attack and protect the system throughout operating system startup on bare-metal systems, the authors believe that having the understanding and being able to develop this type of hypervisors are valuable for research.
With this goal in mind, the project aims to offer With this goal in mind, the project aims to offer
- Straightforward and approachable codebase - Straightforward and approachable codebase
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Requirements for the UEFI driver: Requirements for the UEFI driver:
- UEFI-based system - UEFI-based system
- 64bit Windows 10 and Windows 10 IoT Core to boot - 64bit Windows 10, IoT Core, or Ubuntu to boot
Requirements for the Windows driver: Requirements for the Windows driver:
- 64bit Windows 7 and 10 - 64bit Windows 7 and 10
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* No need of disabling Hyper-V (Virtualization Based Security) to run the custom hypervisor * No need of disabling Hyper-V (Virtualization Based Security) to run the custom hypervisor
* No need of enabling the test-signing mode * No need of enabling the test-signing mode
* Zero direct indicator of existence of the hypervisor from Windows perspective * Zero direct indicator of existence of the hypervisor from operating system perspective
* Installing hooks during the early boot phase and letting PatchGuard to protect them * Installing hooks during the early boot phase and letting PatchGuard to protect them
* Detecting bootkit and early system modification * Detecting bootkit and early system modification
* Implementing operating system agnostic solutions
Limitations Limitations
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- Nested virtualization is not supported. The CPUID instruction reports that the VMX extension is unsupported. - Nested virtualization is not supported. The CPUID instruction reports that the VMX extension is unsupported.
- Booting Windows SKUs other than the listed above, as well as Linux are not supported or tested. - Booting Windows SKUs other than the listed above is not supported or tested.
- Sleep and resume are not supported or tested. - Sleep and resume are not supported or tested.