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| title | description | published | date | tags | editor | dateCreated |
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| External ressources | A list of external mostly-online ressources around KVM virtualization and related technologies | true | 2021-06-23T13:23:47.770Z | markdown | 2021-06-23T12:36:12.051Z |
Curated ressources
Meta
- Awesome Virtualization, A curated list of awesome resources about virtualization
Communities
- To-do
Unsorted
Books
On Linux
- The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition: A Complete Introduction
- Understanding the Linux Kernel 3e
- Linux System Programming 2ed
- The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook (English Edition)
Tools
VMs management
Virt-* tools
- virt-install and cloud-init : https://blog.wikichoon.com/2020/09/virt-install-cloud-init.html
- virt-builder and virsh : https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/virt-builder/about.html
- virt-builder : https://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Generate-VM-Images-with-virt-builder
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolbox/
- https://www.golinuxcloud.com/virt-install-examples-kvm-virt-commands-linux/
- virt* cheatsheet : https://www.cyberithub.com/virsh-commands-examples-virt-df-virt-top-kvm/
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_deployment_and_administration_guide/sect-guest_virtual_machine_installation_overview-creating_guests_with_virt_install
Kickstart
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/install-guide/advanced/Kickstart_Installations/
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart/KickstartingFedoraLiveInstallation
- For reference, a complex example with CentOS : https://gist.github.com/giovtorres/0049cec554179d96e0a8329930a6d724
Fedora-related
- Redhat Fedora : https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools.html
- Fedora Silverblue : https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolbox/
Open Build Service (OBS)
- Our build tool, building all of our packages as well as ones for SUSE Linux Enterprise, Arch, Debian, Fedora, Scientific Linux, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and more : https://openbuildservice.org/
openQA
- Automated testing for any operating system, that can read the screen and control the test host the same way a user does : http://open.qa/
YaST
The best/only comprehensive Linux system configuration & installation tool : https://yast.opensuse.org/documentation
Kiwi
Create Linux images for deployment on real hardware, virtualisation, and now even container systems like Docker. Kiwi is the engine that builds the openSUSE release images.
- http://osinside.github.io/kiwi/self_contained.html
- http://osinside.github.io/kiwi/building_images/build_live_iso.html
- http://osinside.github.io/kiwi/building_images/build_simple_disk.html
- http://osinside.github.io/kiwi/building_images/build_kis.html
Virtual chipsets
i440fx
Q35
microvm
virt
Devices
Emulated
Paravirtualization
vfio-mdev
vfio-gpu
KVM hypervisors
CROSVM/KVM
Spectrum OS
QEMU/KVM
- QEMU / KVM CPU model configuration : https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/qemu-cpu-models.html
- This is a port of QEMU machine emulator to JavaScript using Emscripten : https://github.com/atrosinenko/qemujs
- My QEMU fork with pinning (affinity) support and a few tweaks. : https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/qemu-pinning
QEMU virtualization on Fedora host
- Virtualization Deployment and Administration Guide
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/26/html/Installation_Guide/index.html
- fedora cloud images : https://alt.fedoraproject.org/cloud/
QEMU virtualization on macOS host
- Virtualizing OpenCore and x86 macOS on Apple Silicon (and even iOS!) https://khronokernel.github.io/apple/silicon/2021/01/17/QEMU-AS.html
- UTM App :
Cloud Hypervisor/KVM
- Docs ; https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/tree/master/docs
- Cloud Hypervisor API : https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/blob/master/docs/api.md
- Device model : https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/blob/master/docs/device_model.md
- FUzzing : https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/blob/master/docs/fuzzing.md
- Using MACVTAP to Bridge onto Host Network : https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/blob/master/docs/macvtap-bridge.md
- Networking : https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/blob/master/docs/networking.md
- UEFI Boot : https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/blob/master/docs/uefi.md
- VFIO : https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/blob/master/docs/vfio.md
Guests
Android
- adb cheat sheet : https://www.automatetheplanet.com/adb-cheat-sheet/
- Building Android for Qemu: A Step-by-Step Guide https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2016/09/02/building-android-for-qemu-a-step-by-step-guide/
- Vifio for Android : https://github.com/robherring/generic_device/wiki
Lakka
- Proxmox : https://forums.libretro.com/t/video-guide-how-to-install-lakka-as-a-vm-using-kvm-in-unraid/6319
macOS kvm guest
- https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
- https://github.com/yoonsikp/macos-kvm-pci-passthrough
- https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
- https://www.nicksherlock.com/2019/10/installing-macos-catalina-10-15-on-proxmox-6/
- Virgil 3D renderer for macos : https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg04235.html
- OSX-KVM : https://gitlab.com/sanselme/OSX-KVM
PS4
- Orbital : Virtualization-based PlayStation 4 emulator : https://github.com/AlexAltea/orbital
Themes
GPU-related
Android
- Android GPU Compute Going Forward : https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/04/android-gpu-compute-going-forward.html?m=1
- GPU Emulation plans : https://groups.google.com/g/android-emulator-dev/c/9o8OZezxq9c?pli=1
Single GPU passthrough
- https://github.com/cosminmocan/vfio-single-amdgpu-passthrough
- https://gitlab.com/Karuri/vfio
- https://github.com/bducha/single-gpu-passthrough
- bugs : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/2678
Guides
- Great in-depth article : https://stewartadam.io/howtos/fedora-20/create-gaming-virtual-machine-using-vfio-pci-passthrough-kvm
- UEFI ! https://blog.system76.com/post/139138591598/howto-uefi-qemu-guest-on-ubuntu-xenial-host
- Getting started with qemu : https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/10/Getting-started-with-qemu.html
Package management
- RPM Packaging Guide : https://rpm-packaging-guide.github.io/#preparing-software-for-packaging
- Join the package collection maintainers : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers
Tiny-distro
- Build and run minimal Linux / Busybox systems in Qemu : https://gist.github.com/chrisdone/02e165a0004be33734ac2334f215380e#file-gistfile1-md
- Making minimal graphical operating system : https://bcksp.blogspot.com/2017/09/making-minimal-graphical-operating.html?m=1
- Build and boot a minimal Linux system with qemu : https://www.kaizou.org/2016/09/boot-minimal-linux-qemu.html
- alux - a minimal Linux kernel distribution : https://github.com/alexhultman/alux
- Build and run minimal linux with QEMU : https://gist.github.com/seokbeomKim/9cff93b073573fe535534c522c6e53e1
Communication
Mascot
- Xenia, the Linux mascot: https://xenia-linux-site.glitch.me/
Funding
NGI Open Calls : https://www.ngi.eu/opencalls/#ngi-zero-pet-opencall
MISC
Desktop environment
Wayland
- GUI : http://bhepple.com/doku/doku.php?id=sway:sway-apps
- Wayland on archlinux : https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/wayland
Virtualization tool
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/23/html/Virtualization_Getting_Started_Guide/sec-Other-Useful-tools.html
- https://github.com/kvmtool/kvmtool kvmtool is a lightweight tool for hosting KVM guests. As a pure virtualization tool it only supports guests using the same architecture, though it supports running 32-bit guests on those 64-bit architectures that allow this.
Networking
Bridge
- How To Create and Configure Bridge Networking For KVM in Linux : https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-create-and-configure-bridge-networking-for-kvm-in-linux/
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Network_Configuration-Bridged_networking_with_libvirt.html
- Networking in Libvirt : https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking
- https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/2015/09/fedora-22-libvirt-with-bridge.html
- How to Setup Bridge Networking with KVM on Ubuntu 20.04 : https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-setup-bridge-networking-with-kvm-on-ubuntu-20-04-9c560b3e3991
Bridge Wireless Cards
- https://shanetomlinson.com/bridging-a-wireless-card-in-kvmqemu/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160821085327/http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/bridge-wireless-cards/
- https://gist.github.com/Jiab77/4cf278ac3ad59665969bdf73e083a847
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159191/setup-kvm-on-a-wireless-interface-on-a-laptop-machine
Cloud gaming
- Gaming Anywhere : https://github.com/chunying/gaminganywhere
Linux KVM
https://thereisnospoon.ews-network.net/posts/fedora-30-win10-nvidia-gpu-passthrough/ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/all-you-need-know-about-kvm-userspace Windows Gaming on Linux: Single GPU Passthrough Guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BxAaaRDEEw Using the KVM API https://lwn.net/Articles/658511/ Sparkler: A KVM-based Virtual Machine Manager : https://unixism.net/2019/10/sparkler-kvm-based-virtual-machine-manager/
3D in a VM virtual gpu virtugl virtio-gl virgil
- Virglrenderer and the state of virtualized virtual worlds, 2019. https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/08/28/virglrenderer-state-of-virtualized-virtual-worlds/
- Virtualizing GPU Access https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2018/02/12/virtualizing-gpu-access/
- Android https://linuxhint.com/android_qemu_play_3d_games_linux/
- https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2016/09/using-virtio-gpu-with-libvirt-and-spice/
- https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/virglrenderer
- https://github.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/releases
- https://virtualgl.org/About/Introduction
- http://virgil3d.github.io/
- https://www.studiopixl.com/2017-08-27/3d-acceleration-using-virtio.html
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer
- https://github.com/Keenuts/virtio-gpu-documentation
- https://at.projects.genivi.org/wiki/display/DIRO/VIRTIO+GPU+Operation+Highlights
- https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/7nmceg/kvmqemu_with_virtiogpu_virgl_support_enabled/
- https://forums.unraid.net/topic/62276-gpu-virtualization-virtio-gpu-virgl-sr-iov-mxgpu-vdi-spice/
- https://github.com/ekistece/Fedora-33-VFIO-guide/
- www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/h9zijx/fedora_32_and_gpu_passthrough_vfio/
- https://czak.pl/2020/04/09/three-levels-of-qemu-graphics.html
- http://events17.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/KVM%20Forum%202014%20-%20VFIO%2C%20OVMF%2C%20GPU%2C%20and%20You%20-%20Alex%20Williamson.pdf
- Virgil 3d project homepage : http://virgil3d.github.io/
- Introducing Virgil - 3D virtual GPU for qemu : https://airlied.livejournal.com/77553.html
Modes of 3D acceleration in a VM explained
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2019/09/display-devices-in-qemu/
Intel HAXM
Nested virtualization support : https://github.com/intel/haxm/issues/51
Gitea awesome list
Awesome Gitea : https://gitea.com/gitea/awesome-gitea
Cloud-init
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cloud-init
virt-install --cloud-init support : https://blog.wikichoon.com/2020/09/virt-install-cloud-init.html
KVM server
[2016] Performant Security Hardening of KVM by Steve Rutherford : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj5PA_D03Vg
Great guide : https://github.com/ekistece/Fedora-33-VFIO-guide/
https://mathiashueber.com/performance-tweaks-gaming-on-virtual-machines/
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-kvm-on-centos-8-headless-server/
https://ostechnix.com/install-and-configure-kvm-in-ubuntu-20-04-headless-server/
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-kvm-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts-headless-server/
https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-kvm-on-fedora/
https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=kvm&f=10
'virt-host-validate' to check whether QEMU and LXC are setup correctly
https://scottlinux.com/2017/05/10/how-to-enable-iommu-support-in-fedora-linux/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
https://marzukia.github.io/post/fedora-32-and-gpu-passthrough-vfio/
https://marzukia.github.io/post/fedora-32-and-gpu-passthrough-vfio/
https://gitlab.com/Karuri/vfio
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Features
Libvirt
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libvirt
Guest protection
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/hpca/2018/365901a441/12OmNzkMlRm
https://ipads.se.sjtu.edu.cn/_media/publications/fidelius_hpca18.pdf
Nested virt. with KVM
https://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=275
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/using-nested-virtualization-in-kvm/
(Mostly) Exitless VM Protection from Untrusted Hypervisor through Disaggregated Nested Virtualization
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentation/mi
Hackintosh
ACS Override
- Fedora ACS override https://github.com/Somersall-Natalie/fedora-acs-override
- ACS Override Kernel Builds https://queuecumber.gitlab.io/linux-acs-override/
- Fedora Build ACS Override Patch Kernel https://wiki.myhypervisor.ca/books/linux/page/fedora-build-acs-override-patch-kernel
- ACS Overrride patch for debian https://github.com/raphendyr/acs-override
- [PATCH] pci: Enable overrides for missing ACS capabilities PCIe ACS (Access Control Services) : https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/30/513
- IOMMU Groups, inside and out http://vfio.blogspot.com/2014/08/iommu-groups-inside-and-out.html
Security
Secure Boot
https://www.kraxel.org/slides/virtual-secure-boot/#hands-on-libvirt
- [Openstack] Allow Secure Boot (SB) for QEMU- and KVM-based guests : https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/train/approved/allow-secure-boot-for-qemu-kvm-guests.html
sVirt
http://www.virtualopensystems.com/en/solutions/guides/kvm-svirt-omap5/ https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/security-enhanced_linux/ch07s02 sVirt: Hardening Linux Virtualization with Mandatory Access Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1gHOBduuQ
Qemu
https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/security.html
TPM
https://fossies.org/linux/qemu/docs/specs/tpm.rst
Ideas from hackernews blog post (as used by Red Hat)
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Aggressively compile out unused features/devices.
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Confine each VM with separate SELinux contexts (sVirt).
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Run qemu as a special non-root user.
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Use seccomp to confine the system calls.
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Pass in pre-opened file descriptors to qemu, so qemu doesn't need to open files (helps with writing tightly confined SELinux policy).
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Run qemu in a cgroup.
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Run qemu-img with resource limits.
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Compile qemu with all hardening features enabled like RELRO, PIE, etc.
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Audit the code manually and with Coverity.
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Take security reports seriously and have a fast patching mechanism (you can effectively "live patch" qemu by migrating a VM off the old qemu and on to the new qemu).
Probably more that I've forgotten about ...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588899
Other ressources
ERNW_Hardening_KVM : https://github.com/ernw/hardening/blob/master/hypervisor/kvm/ERNW_Hardening_KVM.md
Security in QEMUHow Virtual Machines provide Isolation : https://vmsplice.net/~stefan/stefanha-kvm-forum-2018.pdf
Qemu hardening with CT: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/hardening-qemu-through-continuous-security-testing
Headless virtualization
https://www.ostechnix.com/setup-headless-virtualization-server-using-kvm-ubuntu/
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/installing-kvm-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-server/
fedora headless virt group
RESSOURCES Unraid
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/84226-wireguard-quickstart/
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/80251-unraid-beginners-tutorial/
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/84316-wireguard-vpn-tunneled-access/
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/84226-wireguard-quickstart/
https://vfio.blogspot.com/2014/08/iommu-groups-inside-and-out.html ACS Override
Add that line to network boot loader
windows guest tweaking :
https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/VM_Guest_Support
Additionally, in case you are using QEMU 4.0 (or higher) in combination with a Q35 chip, the flag ‘ioapic driver='kvm'‘ needs to be added in the features section (see excerpt marked blue). https://mathiashueber.com/fighting-error-43-nvidia-gpu-virtual-machine/
Q35 Versus i440fx
https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/5ireij/differencesbenefits_between_i440fx_and_q35/ https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Q35
Storage-related file
TRIM in VM
https://chrisirwin.ca/posts/discard-with-kvm/
Drive options
https://heiko-sieger.info/qemu-system-x86_64-drive-options/
Virtio-FS
https://www.tauceti.blog/post/qemu-kvm-share-host-directory-with-vm-with-virtio/
RAW versus QCOW2
https://www.tutos.snatch-crash.fr/proxmox-raw-vs-qcow2-vs-vmdk/
QCOW Encryption
https://libvirt.org/formatstorageencryption.html
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/qemu-devel/patch/20170210170910.8867-14-berrange@redhat.com/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/qemu-devel/patch/20170126101827.22378-13-berrange@redhat.com/
SeaBIOS versus edk2
https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/seabios/2014-February/007689.html
Snapshot of efi-based VM
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg05221.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1881850
IOMMU Exploit
XML
Intel GVT-g
- https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Shunlir/Intel_GVT-g
- https://libvirt.org/drvnodedev.html
- https://blog.tmm.cx/2020/05/15/passing-an-intel-gpu-to-a-linux-kvm-virtual-machine/
- https://blog.bepbep.co/posts/gvt/
- https://reposhub.com/cpp/miscellaneous/DualCoder-vgpu_unlock.html
- https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/laptop-intel-nvidia-optimus-passthrough.lantian/
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_GVT-g