While going through the code I took the freedom to move stuff around to
improve readability. Most notably I replaced ioctl with macro that checks
for success, avoiding the if(ret == -1) err(...) pattern most of the time.
- this reduce the overhead because the boot time is smaller in
comparsion to qemu
- furthermore, a more direct communication via VM_EXISTS is possible
- the current version doesn't support a network interface
The hypervisor based on KVM and is called uhyve. You could test the
hypervisor with following command:
HERMIT_ISLE=uhyve HERMIT_VERBOSE=1 tools/proxy usr/tests/hello
