zvm

A KVM frontend written in Zig

Build

For native:

zig build

Or cross-compile for arm64:

zig build -Dtarget=aarch64-linux

Run

Just run with stand-alone linux kernel:

zvm -kernel /path/to/bzImage

Also with an initrd:

zvm -kernel /path/to/bzImage -initrd /path/to/initrd

You could also specify the kernel cmdline:

zvm -kernel /path/to/bzImage -cmdline "console=ttyS0 ..."

Attach a virtual disk:

zvm -kernel /path/to/bzImage -b /path/to/disk.img

Attach a virtual NIC:

zvm -kernel /path/to/bzImage -n

Functionalities

	x86-64	arm64
boot	✔️	✔️
smp	✔️	✔️
initrd	✔️	✔️
serial	✔️	✔️
mmio	✔️	✔️
pci	❌	✔️
MSI-X	❌	✔️
virtio-mmio	✔️	✔️
virtio-pci-modern	❌	✔️
virtio-blk	✔️	✔️
virtio-net	✔️	✔️
vhost-net	✔️	✔️