WorkingTipsOnmvisor

Oct 9, 2023
Technology

Hardware/OS/Software

nuc11 running Ubuntu 22.04:

dash@dash-NUC11PAHi5:~$ lscpu | grep 1135
型号名称：                          11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
dash@dash-NUC11PAHi5:~$ uname -a
Linux dash-NUC11PAHi5 6.2.0-31-generic #31~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Aug 16 13:45:26 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
dash@dash-NUC11PAHi5:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS \n \l

Build Steps

Install prerequisite packages:

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install -y build-essential git meson protobuf-c-compiler autoconf automake libtool curl make g++ unzip protobuf-compiler  cmake uuid-dev pkg-config libyaml-cpp-dev libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev libpixman-1-dev libzstd-dev libasound2-dev libsdl2-dev libepoxy-dev

Clone/build/install virglrender:

unzip virglrenderer-main.zip
cd virglrenderer-main/
meson -Dprefix=/usr build
cd build/
sudo ninja install

Clone/build/install mvisor:

unzip mvisor-master.zip 
cd mvisor-master/
vim meson_options.txt
    option('vgpu',
      type: 'boolean',
      value: true,
      description: 'Enable VGPU device'
meson setup build
meson compile -C build
./build/mvisor --version
     MVisor: 2.5.2
sudo cp build/mvisor /usr/bin/

VM Operations

Folder content:

$ pwd
/home/dash/mvisorwin
$ ls
virtio-win-0.1.240.iso  win10.qcow2  zh-cn_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_updated_sep_2023_x64_dvd_4cde879b.iso

Create the yaml via:

$ cat default.yaml 
name: Default configuration
base: i440fx.yaml

machine:
  memory: 8G
  vcpu: 4
  # Set vcpu thread priority value [-20, 19]
  # A higher value means a lower priority
  priority: 1
  # Turn on BIOS output and performance measurement
  debug: No
  # Turn on hypervisor to lower CPU usage (Hyper-V is used for Windows)
  hypervisor: Yes

objects:
  - name: cmos
    # gmtime for linux, localtime for windows
    rtc: localtime

  - class: qxl
  - class: spice-agent
  - class: qemu-guest-agent
  - class: usb-tablet

  - class: virtio-network
    backend: uip
    mac: 00:50:00:11:22:33
    map: tcp:0.0.0.0:8022-:22

  - class: ata-cdrom 
    image: /home/dash/mvisorwin/zh-cn_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_updated_sep_2023_x64_dvd_4cde879b.iso
  
  - class: ata-cdrom
    image: /home/dash/mvisorwin/virtio-win-0.1.240.iso

  - class: virtio-block
    image: /home/dash/mvisorwin/win10.qcow2
    snapshot: No
  
  # - class: floppy
  #   image: /data/images/floppy.img

  # - class: virtio-block
  #   image: /data/empty.qcow2
  #   snapshot: No

  # - class: virtio-fs
  #   path: /tmp/fuse
  #   disk_name: mvisor-fs
  #   disk_size: 2G
  #   inode_count: 200

  # - class: vfio-pci
  #   sysfs: /sys/bus/mdev/devices/c2e088ba-954f-11ec-8584-525400666f2b
  #   debug: Yes

  - class: virtio-vgpu
    memory: 1G
    staging: Yes
    blob: No
    node: /dev/dri/renderD128

Start the machine via: