[BitVisor-devel-en:132] Re: Sqlite3 testing in Bitvisor 3.0

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hi All,

I just tested my Windows 11 (x64) after compiling the latest Bitvisor 
3.0 and it seems to start to boot but then the screen freezes up just at 
the point that it is showing the Windows logo and the little circle 
starts to rotate. It goes for just a second and then freezes up.

I may have to try and add the modifications to see if I can get it to work.

On a side note, I was able to get the dbgsh-i to work and then start up 
the sqliteexaample, so I think that problem is done for now.

Best and have a great weekend.
Lonnie

On 8/19/2025 6:44 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> Hi Dmitriy,
>
> Looks like after some Windows 11 updates were applied then it was able 
> to boot up under Bitvisor 3.0.  Still would be nice to have any 
> patches come out in the next version as well just in case it is run on 
> other machines.
>
> On the SQLite side, have you been able to use BV 3.0 to get SQLite 
> working as I want to slowly test all of the features that are 
> currently implemented in Bitvisor which are, from what I can see, 
> mainly SQLite (from dgbsh.efi and from within Ubuntu but did not see 
> any Windows build for it), as well as the encrypted filesystem.  There 
> are also a few other things like IDMan, that I do not know much about, 
> but will look into it more as well as like the Wireguard 
> implementation although still having a few problems connecting to 
> other Wireguard nodes (i.e. Servers).
>
> Have you been able to work with SQLite and the examples with Bitvisor 3.0?
>
> Regarding the transparent disk encryption, I want to test what 
> Bitvisor can already do, but have also come across a project called 
> "TreVisor" (https://github.com/lakeman/trevisor) which uses the TRESOR 
> Encryption 
> (https://www.cs1.tf.fau.de/research/system-security-group/tresor-trevisor-armored/) 
> to keep the keys out of RAM and seems to be based upon Bitvisor 1.3.
>
> Once I have been able to get a good feel for all of the basic Bitvisor 
> 3.0 functionality, I was thinking to perhaps give it a try to port up 
> the BitVisor-1.3 patch for TreVisor to hopefully work with the latest 
> Bitvisor 3.0 since it looks like a bit of an enhancement in security 
> based upon the TreVisor Security paper but I also want to keep the 
> latest main Bitvisor features as well.
>
> Mostly exploring at the moment but I am really hoping to dive in 
> heavily over the next few months to use it at the core for an 
> interesting project that will explore running ultra-thin OS which will 
> basically be under Bitvisor, but more on that later.
>
> Best and have a great evening,
> Lonnie
>
> On 8/19/2025 4:20 PM, A.S. wrote:
>> Hi Lonnie,
>>
>> It seems, the Windows 11 patch hasn't been applied into the latest 
>> upstream repository yet.
>>
>> If you experience the same problem you should try applying it 
>> yourself, hopefully there should be no difficulties with that.
>>
>> ==============
>> Best regards,
>>   Dmitriy
>>
>> вт, 19 авг. 2025 г., 22:56 Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie at outstep.com>:
>>
>>     Greetings All,
>>
>>     Hope that everyone is doing well.
>>
>>     I have been compiling the Bitvisor 3.0 from the Github Matsu
>>     repository:
>>
>>     https://github.com/matsu/bitvisor
>>
>>     But still cannot get the SQLiteExample to work through the
>>     "dbgsh" as it does not seem to find it no matter what I try.  In
>>     my last efforts, I even copied the sqliteexample.bin into the
>>     "EFI/Boot" directory where the bitvisor.efi and loader are
>>     located but it seems that the bin files are not something that is
>>     loaded at boot time and I suspect that they would be compiled
>>     into bitvisor as a single efi file.
>>
>>     Also, I have been testing on my Nuc13 Ubuntu 22.04 (x64) machine
>>     since I think that there is a problem booting up Windows 11 (x64)
>>     from a recent mailing list message in which a fix was going to be
>>     put into place, but I have not see any additional emails on this
>>     and if this has bee added to the latest Bitvisor.
>>
>>     Any updates on these would be greatly appreciated, my friends.
>>
>>     Best,
>>     Lonnie
>>
>>
>>     On 8/16/2025 2:09 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>>>     Hello all
>>>
>>>     I am testing Sqlite3 in Bitvisor 3.0 on a Ubuntu 22.04 (x64) system.
>>>
>>>     In the "make config" setup, I do see the an option for "SQLite
>>>     in Protection Domain" and do see some sqlite bin modules
>>>     including sqliteexample.bin but am not clear as to if I need to
>>>     put the bin files in the EFI directory with bitvisor.efi so that
>>>     it can load the modules.
>>>
>>>     After I boot bitvisor, I am able to start up "./dbgsh" to talk
>>>     to bitvisor, but it does not seem to locate the sqliteexample
>>>     when I try to start it.
>>>
>>>     My reading has been in an English translation of the
>>>
>>>     Trying out BitVisor's SQLite feature
>>>     https://qiita.com/mmi/items/613bef0fdc6f41d3cb6b
>>>
>>>     and
>>>
>>>     Trying out BitVisor's SQLite feature (storage_io)
>>>     https://qiita.com/hdk_2/items/ea981dc1da10499fe941
>>>
>>>     in which the first one asks to have the configs in place for:
>>>
>>>     STORAGESTORAGE_IOCRYPTOSTORAGE_PDSQLITE
>>>
>>>     Also, based upon (below) the plugins are static and not able to
>>>     be dynamically loaded but I would guess that the plugin modules
>>>     still need to be placed in the EFI directory.
>>>
>>>     Implementing plugin functionality in BitVisor
>>>     https://qiita.com/RKX1209/items/f368ff237bee9efbb0be
>>>
>>>     Can you please advise me on this as I am really trying to dig
>>>     into bitvisor for this new version of the project that I wanted
>>>     to complete.
>>>
>>>     Thanks an have a great day, my friends.
>>>     Lonnie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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