A tutorial from creating a hypervisor from scratch
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Source code of a multiple series of tutorials about hypervisor.

Available at: https://rayanfam.com/tutorials

Part 1 - Basic Concepts & Configure Testing Environment (https://rayanfam.com/topics/hypervisor-from-scratch-part-1/)

Part 2 - Entering VMX Operation (https://rayanfam.com/topics/hypervisor-from-scratch-part-2/)

Part 3 - Setting up Our First Virtual Machine (https://rayanfam.com/topics/hypervisor-from-scratch-part-3/)

Part 4 - Address Translation Using Extended Page Table (EPT) (https://rayanfam.com/topics/hypervisor-from-scratch-part-4/)

Part 5 - Setting up VMCS & Running Guest Code (https://rayanfam.com/topics/hypervisor-from-scratch-part-5/)

Part 6 - Virtualizing An Already Running System (https://rayanfam.com/topics/hypervisor-from-scratch-part-6/)

Part 7 - Using EPT & Page-Level Monitoring Features (not published) (https://rayanfam.com/topics/hypervisor-from-scratch-part-7/)

Note: Please keep in mind that hypervisors change during the time because new features added to the operating systems or using new technologies, for example, updates to Meltdown & Spectre have made a lot of changes to the hypervisors, so if you want to use Hypervisor From Scratch in your projects, researches or whatever, you have to use the driver from the latest parts of these tutorial series as this tutorial is actively updated and changes are applied to the newer parts (earlier parts keep untouched) so you might encounter errors and instability problems in the earlier parts thus make sure to use the latest parts in real-world projects.

In order to compile this project you have to use Windows Driver Kit (WDK), first install Visual Studio then install WDK then you can compile it.

If you want to know more about the hypervisors, you can visit : https://github.com/Wenzel/awesome-virtualization

Hypervisor From Scratch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 license.