From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga12.intel.com (mga12.intel.com [192.55.52.136]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web08.7926.1646141385262100108 for ; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:30:02 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=fail reason="unable to parse pub key" header.i=@intel.com header.s=intel header.b=QYUcw14j; spf=pass (domain: intel.com, ip: 192.55.52.136, mailfrom: sebastien.boeuf@intel.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1646141401; x=1677677401; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PCWPLD1+DG6eiAWsWBGlRI4uEXfRymW6WdM3t01YiUs=; b=QYUcw14jZ/AUhcfY9bQf15HBiM1vnC2uM94Eko69U6bc1QyoN1Xzj1bO lT+Tf6ADND+0WJmX8jC8q/ntDEEWOrQazITGzD5R1tHWtVEnrZ/C1CSRc XLcQ7uSPe/xJrW4fXVHwvRsYOr96Fo4C3hcLYhcEHeVwgbifaAAl7yQQI PGe+snphFmqtgPY3wl6BYJKgR7ljkJ8lSicLFp0JYEl8mLQQobwyP/3sy wnKPtYi6Fu1O3qpumsxbQONzKGFiLakAPZTPQ2CEc3kNuZ0RryQoCiweL MQBvYwez4AGi6Tp9IoR9GR6bKHpDhM541j9OVp1yDRfho7w6Z6usSk7ok w==; X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10272"; a="233099467" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,146,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="233099467" Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by fmsmga106.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 01 Mar 2022 05:30:01 -0800 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,146,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="550712040" Received: from jashipm-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com (HELO sboeuf-mobl.home) ([10.252.27.150]) by orsmga008-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 01 Mar 2022 05:29:59 -0800 From: "Boeuf, Sebastien" To: devel@edk2.groups.io Cc: jiewen.yao@intel.com, jordan.l.justen@intel.com, kraxel@redhat.com, sebastien.boeuf@intel.com Subject: [PATCH v5 7/7] OvmfPkg: CloudHv: Add README Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 14:29:17 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.32.0 In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Sebastien Boeuf Add some documentation to the CloudHv target in order to clarify how to use it and what to expect from it. Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf --- OvmfPkg/CloudHv/README | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+) create mode 100644 OvmfPkg/CloudHv/README diff --git a/OvmfPkg/CloudHv/README b/OvmfPkg/CloudHv/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..63e28860e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/OvmfPkg/CloudHv/README @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ + +CloudHv is a port of OVMF for the Cloud Hypervisor project. + +The Cloud Hypervisor project +---------------------------- + +Cloud Hypervisor is a Virtual Machine Monitor that runs on top of KVM. The +project focuses on exclusively running modern, cloud workloads, on top of a +limited set of hardware architectures and platforms. Cloud workloads refer= s to +those that are usually run by customers inside a cloud provider. This means +modern operating systems with most I/O handled by paravirtualised devices +(i.e. virtio), no requirement for legacy devices, and 64-bit CPUs. + +https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor + +Design +------ + +Based on Cloud Hypervisor's motto to reduce the emulation as much as possi= ble, +the project logically decided to support the PVH boot specification as the= only +way of booting virtual machines. That includes both direct kernel boot and= OVMF +firmware which must be generated as PVH ELF binaries. +PVH allows information like location of ACPI tables and location of guest = RAM +ranges to be shared without the need of an extra emulated device like a CM= OS. + +Features +-------- + +* Serial console +* EFI shell +* virtio-pci + +Build +----- + +The way to build the CloudHv target is as follows: + +OvmfPkg/build.sh -p OvmfPkg/CloudHv/CloudHvX64.dsc -a X64 -b DEBUG + +Usage +----- + +Assuming Cloud Hypervisor is already built, one can start a virtual machin= e as +follows: + +./cloud-hypervisor \ + --cpus boot=3D1 \ + --memory size=3D1G \ + --kernel Build/CloudHvX64/DEBUG_GCC5/FV/CLOUDHV.fd \ + --disk path=3D/path/to/disk.raw + +Releases +-------- + +In edk2-stable202202, CloudHv is generated as data-only binary. +Starting with edk2-stable202205, CloudHv is generated as a PVH ELF binary = to +reduce the amount of emulation needed from Cloud Hypervisor. +For TDX, things are handled differently and PVH is not used, which is why = the +firmware is always generated as a data-only binary. + ++-------------------+----------------+ +| | CloudHv | ++-------------------+----------------+ +| edk2-stable202202 | Data binary | ++-------------------+----------------+ +| edk2-stable202205 | PVH ELF binary | ++-------------------+----------------+ -- = 2.32.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation SAS (French simplified joint stock company) Registered headquarters: "Les Montalets"- 2, rue de Paris, = 92196 Meudon Cedex, France Registration Number: 302 456 199 R.C.S. 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