Getting started

Getting access

Read access to the source is provided to all Googlers (members of nonconf-mirror@prod, to be precise). Permission to submit CLs requires membership of hafnium-access@prod. Full administrative rights are only granted to members of hafnium-admin@prod.

Getting the source code

git clone --recurse-submodules sso://hafnium/hafnium && (cd hafnium && f=`git rev-parse --git-dir`/hooks/commit-msg ; curl -Lo $f https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/tools/hooks/commit-msg ; chmod +x $f)

To upload a commit for review:

git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master

Browse source at go/hafnium-repo. Review CLs at go/hafnium-review.

Compiling the hypervisor

Install prerequisites:

sudo apt install make binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu

By default, the hypervisor is built with clang for a few target platforms along with tests.

make

The compiled image can be found under out/, for example the QEMU image is at at out/qemu_aarch64_clang/hafnium.bin.

Running on QEMU

You will need at least version 2.9 for QEMU. The following command line can be used to run Hafnium on it:

qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic -machine virtualization=true -kernel out/qemu_aarch64_clang/hafnium.bin

Though it is admittedly not very useful because it doesn't have any virtual machines to run. Follow the Hafnium RAM disk instructions to create an initial RAM disk for Hafnium with Linux as the primary VM.

The following command line will run Hafnium, with the RAM disk just created, which will then boot into the primary Linux VM:

qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic -machine virtualization=true -kernel out/qemu_aarch64_clang/hafnium.bin -initrd initrd.img -append "rdinit=/sbin/init"

Running tests

After building, presubmit tests can be run with the following command line:

./kokoro/ubuntu/test.sh

Read about testing for more details about the tests.