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# kvm-rs
-[![Rust](https://github.com/johannst/mini-kvm-rs/actions/workflows/rust.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/johannst/mini-kvm-rs/actions/workflows/rust.yml)
+[![Rust][wf-badge]][wf-output] [![Rustdoc][doc-badge]][doc-html]
+
+[wf-output]: https://github.com/johannst/mini-kvm-rs/actions/workflows/rust.yml
+[wf-badge]: https://github.com/johannst/mini-kvm-rs/actions/workflows/rust.yml/badge.svg
+[doc-html]: https://johannst.github.io/mini-kvm-rs/kvm_rs/index.html
+[doc-badge]: https://img.shields.io/badge/kvm__rs-rustdoc-blue.svg?style=flat&logo=rust
A playground for the [`Kernel Virtual Machine
(KVM)`](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/virt/kvm/index.html) in rust to
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- [`src/`](./src) provides a small library as abstraction over the raw [KVM
API](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/virt/kvm/api.html#api-description).
- [`examples/`](./examples) contains example VMs using the library above.
-- [`guest/`](./guest) contains the guest source code.
-- [`sysdeps/`](./sysdeps) helper to generate some KVM constants from the system
- header (executed by [build.rs](./build.rs)).
+- [`guest/`](./guest) contains the guest source code which is run inside the VMs.
+- [`sysdeps/`](./sysdeps) contains helper to generate some KVM constants from
+ the system header (executed by [build.rs](./build.rs)).
## Documentation
Rustdoc for this crate is avalable at
-[johannst.github.io/mini-kvm-rs](https://johannst.github.io/mini-kvm-rs/kvm_rs/index.html).
+[johannst.github.io/mini-kvm-rs][doc-html].
+
+## Requirements
+
+- Kernel with `kvm` support and permissions to open `/dev/kvm`.
+- Compiler & binuitls for generating the guest images.
## Real Mode (16bit) example