Internships/ProjectIdeas/CompleteSVM

Complete AMD virtualization emulation

Summary: Fix bugs and add extra features for QEMU's emulation of AMD virtualization instructions.

QEMU already includes a basic implementation of the virtualization extensions that are found in AMD processors. The project includes:

• fixing bugs in the implementations, using the kvm-unit-tests suite
• adding support for new features such as vGIF or vVMLOAD/vVMSAVE

Links:

• AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming

Details:

• Skill level: intermediate, or beginner with a good understanding of the x86 architecture
• Language: C
• Mentor: Paolo Bonzini (pbonzini@redhat.com)
• Suggested by: Paolo Bonzini