Am I missing something? Where's the actual course? I just see a description for one.

It looks like course details are linked in the sidebar to the right: https://opensecuritytraining.info/AdvancedX86-VTX.html (perhaps this URL would have made more sense for submission, per "Please submit the original source"?)

Actual title: Advanced x86: Virtualization with Intel VT-x

Original URL: https://opensecuritytraining.info/AdvancedX86-VTX.html

Changed from https://niccs.cisa.gov/education-training/catalog/opensecuri.... Thanks!

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The links to PDF and ODP materials should be swapped

The graph at the bottom shows a great learning path to lead up to and follow the VT-x virtualization

Deprecated, although of historical importance in legacy ISA.

The homologue in the standard ISA is RISC-V H extension[0], which is part of the Privileged RISC-V Specification.

Unsurprisingly, relative to VT-x, it is much simpler.

0. https://five-embeddev.com/riscv-isa-manual/latest/hypervisor...

VT-x is not a RISC-V feature, it is a feature of x86 cpus, which is definitely not deprecated. VT-x is (as far as I know) the technology that allows acceptable speed virtualization of virtual machines, which is the backbone of cloud computing. RISC-V H extension is not applicable to intel CPUs even if it provides features that solve similar problems (ie it cannot possibly be the replacement).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#Intel-VT-x

Noted. Edited "replacement" into "homologue".

Awesome, thanks for the links.

Apparently it's part of the open source courses and learning materials portal on security, x86, ARM, malware, VM, intrusion detection, pcap analysis, crypto, trusted computing, smart card, reverse engineering, forensics, secure coding, software exploits, etc:

https://opensecuritytraining.info/Training.html

All of the training at https://opensecuritytraining.info/Training.html is valuable. Xeno Kovah who set this up originally also hosts a nice timeline of exploit papers https://darkmentor.com/timeline.html, too.

There is continuation of OpenSecurityTraining project https://ost2.fyi/

Unfortunately no mention of V86 even in the intro/history section, which could be considered the origins of x86 virtualisation technology, and achieved widespread use starting with Windows/386 and all the way through the Win9x lineage. If you've ever used those versions of Windows, you've used a hypervisor.

Windows 11 now enables VBS by default; so all modern PCs are running a hypervisor as well.

Anyone who enabled WSL2 was also running Windows under Hyper-V so that Linux could run at the same level. (The same thing virtualization-based security uses.)