1 mainmenu "Palacios VMM Configuration"
3 menu "Target Configuration"
7 prompt "Target Host OS"
12 select BUILT_IN_STDLIB
13 select BUILT_IN_STRCASECMP
15 select ALIGNED_PG_ALLOC
18 This enables the necesary options to compile Palacios with Kitten
21 bool "OLD Linux (Built in) -- to be deprecated"
22 select BUILT_IN_STDLIB
26 This enables the necessary options to compile Palacios with Linux 2.6
27 Currently, this is in development, and only 2.6.32 is verified to work
32 select BUILT_IN_STDLIB
33 select BUILT_IN_STRDUP
38 This enables the necessary options to compile Palacios as a Linux module
43 string "Linux Kernel Source directory"
44 default "/usr/src/linux"
46 This is the directory containing the linux source for the kernel module to be built
51 This enables the necesary options to compile Palacios with Kitten
56 Choose this to compile Palacios for a Generic Host OS
62 bool "Red Storm (Cray XT3/XT4)"
64 Support for Cray XT3 and XT4 systems.
67 bool "AMD SVM Support"
70 Compile with support for AMD SVM
73 bool "Intel VMX Support"
76 Compile with support for Intel VMX
80 bool "Compile with Debug Information"
83 Compiles the Palacios library with debugging symbols
90 bool "XED decoder library"
93 This uses the XED decoder library from pintools
96 bool "Internal Palacios decoder"
98 This selects the internal V3Vee x86 decoder
103 menu "Supported host OS features"
105 config MULTITHREAD_OS
106 bool "Host support for multiple threads"
109 Select this if your OS supports multiple threads of execution. This will enable features in Palacios
110 to require the creation of additional execution threads.
113 config ALIGNED_PG_ALLOC
114 bool "Host support for aligned page allocations"
117 Select this if your OS supports allocating memory pages using an alignment. This is required
118 if you want Palacios to run with large page table pages.
121 int "Maximum number of cpus"
125 Specifies the maximum number of hardware CPUs supported by the OS
126 For uniprocessor environments, set this to 1
129 bool "Host Support for file operations"
132 Select this if your host OS supports file operatoins and you want Palacios to be able to use them.
135 bool "Host support for keyed streams"
138 Select this if your host OS supports keyed streams
139 Palacios Checkpoint/Restore and Migration depends on this feature
142 bool "Host Support for VM text-mode console"
145 Select this if you want to forward a guest console interface to some host OS service
146 This is for a TEXT MODE console. Select the framebuffer console for graphics and text
148 config GRAPHICS_CONSOLE
149 bool "Host Support for VM graphics and text-mode console based on a frame buffer"
152 Select this if you want to forward a guest graphics-mode (and text-mode) console
153 interface to some host OS service. This is for a GRAPHICS console based on a shared frame buffer.
154 Text mode output is RENDERED onto the framebuffer
157 bool "Host support for Network Sockets"
160 Select this if you host OS implements a socket API that is available to Palacios. This is required
161 to support the internal networking features of Palacios.
165 bool "Host support for Raw Packet Transmision"
166 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
169 Select this if you host OS implements a raw packet network API that is available to Palacios. This is required
170 to support the internal networking features of Palacios.
177 bool "Enable VMM telemetry support"
180 Enable the telemetry framework in Palacios
182 This is a framwork that allows components of palacios to record
183 information that is periodically reported to the log output.
184 Telemetry is automatically collected for vmexits. Subsystem telemetry
185 is configured separately
188 config SHADOW_PAGING_TELEMETRY
189 bool "Enable Shadow Paging Telemetry"
193 Enable telemetry information for shadow paging
198 bool "Enable Experimental options"
201 This allows the selection of experimental features. This includes incomplete or unreviewed code.
202 Only enable this feature if you are working on the features in question.
203 IMPORTANT: Non-experimental code MUST NOT use, require, or rely on experimental features.
204 Any code that violates this will be immediately deleted without warning.
206 The purpose of this option is to allow features under development to be committed to the mainline
207 to more easily track changes and provide access to multiple developers
210 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
211 bool "Enable Vnet in Palacios"
214 Enable the Vnet in Palacios
218 bool "Enable VM inspection"
219 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
222 Enable inspection framework for vm internal state
227 source "Kconfig.stdlibs"
230 menu "Virtual Paging"
233 bool "Enable shadow paging"
236 Enables shadow paging for virtual machines
239 config SHADOW_PAGING_VTLB
242 depends on SHADOW_PAGING
244 Enables Virtual TLB implemenation for shadow paging
247 config DEBUG_SHDW_PG_VTLB
248 bool "Enable VTLB debugging"
250 depends on SHADOW_PAGING_VTLB
252 Enables debugging messages for VTLB implementation
254 config SHADOW_PAGING_CACHE1
255 bool "Shadow Page Cache (1)"
257 depends on SHADOW_PAGING
259 Enables caching implemenation for shadow paging
266 menu "Time Management"
267 config VIRTUALIZE_TIME
268 bool "Enable Time virtualization"
271 Enables the timer virtualization extensions
273 config TIME_HIDE_VM_COST
274 bool "Hide VMM Run Cost"
276 depends on VIRTUALIZE_TIME
278 Offset guest time from host time sufficiently to hide the cost of
279 running in the virtual machine. This can aid the consistency of
280 time between multiple timers, but can cause the guest to run
281 a good bit slower than the host in VM-intensive parts of the code.
283 config TIME_VIRTUALIZE_TSC
284 bool "Fully virtualize guest TSC"
286 depends on VIRTUALIZE_TIME
288 Virtualize the processor time stamp counter in the guest,
289 generally increasing consistency between various time sources
290 but also potentially making guest time run slower than real time.
296 menu "Symbiotic Functions"
299 bool "Enable Symbiotic Functionality"
302 Enable Symbiotic components of the VMM.
303 This includes the SymSpy interface.
306 bool "Symbiotic upcalls"
308 depends on SYMBIOTIC && EXPERIMENTAL
310 Enables the Symbiotic upcall interface
315 depends on SYMBIOTIC && SYMCALL && EXPERIMENTAL
317 This enables the SwapBypass architecture
319 config SWAPBYPASS_TELEMETRY
320 bool "Enable SwapBypass Telemetry"
322 depends on TELEMETRY && SWAPBYPASS
324 Enable the telemetry information for the SwapBypass subsystem
327 bool "Symbiotic Modules"
329 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
330 # depends on SYMBIOTIC
332 Enable Symbiotic module loading
339 menu "Debug configuration"
341 config CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
342 bool "Compile with Debug information"
345 This adds the -g flag to the compilation flags
348 ## Is unwind information useful
351 bool "Enable Debugging"
354 This turns on debugging support
362 This turns on debugging for the AMD SVM-specific code
369 This turns on debugging for the Intel VT-specific code
372 config DEBUG_SHADOW_PAGING
377 This turns on debugging for the shadow paging system
380 config DEBUG_NESTED_PAGING
385 This turns on debugging for the nested paging system
388 config DEBUG_CTRL_REGS
389 bool "Control registers"
393 This turns on debugging for the control register handlers
396 config DEBUG_INTERRUPTS
401 This turns on debugging for the interrupt system
408 This turns on debugging of system time virtualization
415 This turns on debugging for the IO handlers
418 config DEBUG_EMULATOR
419 bool "Instruction Emulator"
423 This turns on debugging for the Instruction Emulator
427 bool "Instruction Decoder"
431 This turns on debugging for the selected instruction decoder
438 This turns on debugging for the halt instruction handler
441 bool "Device Manager"
445 This turns on debugging for the device manager
448 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VNET
449 bool "Enable Vnet Debug in Palacios"
452 Enable the Vnet debug in Palacios
457 menu "BIOS Selection"
460 string "Path to pre-built ROMBIOS binary"
461 default "./bios/rombios/BIOS-bochs-latest"
463 This is the rombios that will be used for the guests
466 string "Path to pre-built VGABIOS binary"
467 default "./bios/vgabios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest.bin"
469 This is the vgabios that will be used for the guests
471 config VMXASSIST_PATH
472 string "Path to pre-built VMXASSIST binary"
474 default "./bios/vmxassist/vmxassist.bin"
476 This is vmxassist image to boot real mode guests on
482 source "palacios/src/devices/Kconfig"