cloud-hypervisor/docs/mshv.md

3 …-V virtualization stack, it runs millions of Linux and Windows guests in Azure and on-premises dep…
5 Since 2020, Microsoft has been releasing open-source components to support Linux running as root pa…
8 …nel driver exposing an IOCTL interface for managing guest partitions, via a device node - /dev/mshv
14 The following components are related to MSHV support with Cloud-Hypervisor:
16 * [igvm-crates](https://github.com/microsoft/igvm) : Parsing IGVM file
18 * [mshv-crates](https://github.com/rust-vmm/mshv) : Rust crates to interact with kernel module (/de…
20 * [igvm-tooling](https://github.com/microsoft/igvm-tooling) : Tool to generate IGVM file
26 …ization stack, with support for different isolation technologies such as AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX.
28 …by the tool that generated the file, used by the loader to construct the initial guest state. The …
30 Cloud Hypervisor can be built using igvm feature flag along with mshv and/or sev-snp. IGVM only wor…
32 ## SEV-SNP
34 …-SNP) encrypt memory and restrict access to a guest VM's memory and registers, securing it against…
38 Cloud Hypervisor can be built to run on an MSHV root partition by enabling the mshv feature, e.g.:
40 ```cargo build --locked --all --all-targets --no-default-features --tests --examples --features msh…
44 ```cargo build --locked --all --all-targets --no-default-features --tests --examples --features igv…
48 ```cargo build --locked --all --all-targets --no-default-features --tests --examples --features sev…