You can ruin your motherboard if your BIOS is buggy. MAKE SURE YOUR BIOS IS UP TO DATE, and use the newest available SINIT module from Intel (if using an Intel CPU): http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-trusted-execution-technology/ If you want to be sure your hardware is working, we suggest starting with Intel's tboot project: http://tboot.sourceforge.net/
XMHF is a modular hypervisor platform for recent multicore x86 hardware with support for dynamic root of trust and nested (2-dimensional) paging. It is NOT a full virtual machine monitor.
XMHF takes a developer-centric approach to hypervisor design and implementation, and strives to be a comprehensible and flexible platform for performing hypervisor research and development. XMHF encapsulates common hypervisor core functionality in a framework that allows others to build custom hypervisor-based solutions (called "hypapps"). It currently supports only a single "rich" guest OS.
- XMHF Hardware Requirements
- Building XMHF
- Installing XMHF
- Configuring Grub How to boot XMHF from Grub, along with some tricks for remote\unattended boot.
- Custom Linux Kernels
- Debugging XMHF