Hafnium Manifest

Format

The format of the manifest is a simple DeviceTree overlay:

/dts-v1/;
/plugin/;

&{/} {
	hypervisor {
		compatible = "hafnium,hafnium";

		vm1 {
			debug_name = "name";
			kernel_filename = "vmlinuz";
			ramdisk_filename = "initrd.img";
		};

		vm2 {
			debug_name = "name";
			kernel_filename = "filename";
			vcpu_count = <N>;
			mem_size = <M>;
		};
		...
	};
};

Note: &{/} is a syntactic sugar expanded by the DTC compiler. Make sure to use the DTC in prebuilts/ as the version packaged with your OS may not support it yet.

Example

The following manifest defines a primary VM with two secondary VMs. The first secondary VM has 1MB of memory, 2 CPUs and kernel image called kernel0 (matches filename in Hafnium's ramdisk). The second has 2MB of memory, 4 CPUs and, by omitting the kernel_filename property, a kernel preloaded into memory. The primary VM is given all remaining memory, the same number of CPUs as the hardware, a kernel image called vmlinuz and a ramdisk initrd.img. Secondaries cannot have a ramdisk.

/dts-v1/;
/plugin/;

&{/} {
	hypervisor {
		compatible = "hafnium,hafnium";

		vm1 {
			debug_name = "primary VM";
			kernel_filename = "vmlinuz";
			ramdisk_filename = "initrd.img";

			smc_whitelist = <
				0x04000000
				0x3200ffff
				>;
		};

		vm2 {
			debug_name = "secondary VM 1";
			kernel_filename = "kernel0";
			vcpu_count = <2>;
			mem_size = <0x100000>;

			smc_whitelist_permissive;
		};

		vm3 {
			debug_name = "secondary VM 2";
			vcpu_count = <4>;
			mem_size = <0x200000>;
		};
	};
};

Compiling

Hafnium expects the manifest as part of the board FDT, i.e. DeviceTree in binary format (DTB).

First, compile the manifest into a DTBO (binary overlay):

prebuilts/linux-x64/dtc/dtc -I dts -O dtb --out-version 17 -o manifest.dtbo <manifest_source_file>

Then overlay it with the DTB of your board:

prebuilts/linux-x64/dtc/fdtoverlay -i <board DTB> -o <output DTB> manifest.dtbo