Seoul (formerly Vancouver) is a virtual machine monitor originally developed
for the use with the NOVA hypervisor. Nowadays it is also available for seL4,
for Fiasco.OC and for NOVA on Genode. Seoul virtualizes 32bit x86 PC hardware
including various peripherals. The combination of NOVA and Vancouver (later
Seoul) is described in the following paper by Udo Steinberg and Bernhard Kauer:
[http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/steinberg_eurosys2010.pdf - NOVA: A Microhypervisor-Based Secure Virtualization Architecture]
The NOVA project website is [http://hypervisor.org]
The latest <outdated> Seoul home is [https://github.com/TUD-OS/seoul]
The Seoul version as used by Genode is [https://github.com/alex-ab/seoul], branch
genode_<release>.
Usage
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<config width="1024" height="768" vmm_memory="10M" map_small="no"
rdtsc_exit="no" vmm_vcpu_same_cpu="no">
...
</config>
* The width/height specify the maximum area announced to the guest for the
framebuffer. The values are read once during boot of the VMM. The
values shown above are the default values.
* The vmm_memory value specify the amount of memory reserved for the Seoul VMM
(so it is not available to the VM). The rest of the memory as specified in
the Genode config is assigned to the VM.
* map_small specifies whether just 4k pages should be used. Default is shown.
* rdtsc_exit specifies whether the VM should exit on each rdtsc instruction.
Default is shown.
* vmm_vcpu_same_cpu specifies whether the main entrypoint should run on the
same CPU as the first virtual CPU. Default is shown.
