WinVisor: Hypervisor-Based Emulator for Windows x64 Executables
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🖥️✨ WinVisor: A New Hypervisor-Based Emulator for Windows Applications. In 2024, a developer utilized Microsoft’s Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHP) API to create WinVisor, a hypervisor-based emulator designed to run Windows x64 binaries. This project builds on a previous 16-bit MS-DOS emulator called DOSVisor and aims to automate the execution of simple executables while logging system calls. WinVisor operates by mapping the target executable’s memory into a virtual environment, allowing for syscall interception and logging. However, it has limitations, including potential security vulnerabilities and support for only a single thread. The project serves as a proof-of-concept and lays the groundwork for future enhancements in virtualization and security. The source code is available on GitHub.
