In order to compile our CAmkES VM projects you will need to additionally install the host dependencies for CAmkES (https://docs.sel4.systems/HostDependencies.html - under 'CAmkES Build Dependencies'). As you've identified, we have two resources regarding how to setup a CAmkES VM project (the vm-examples README & tutorial). You can follow the build instructions described in either resource to build an example system for getting started. In order to run the CAmkES VM you can either boot the images on hardware or within a emulated environment. If running on hardware, this would usually involve making the images available on a hard drive or through a network such that the multiboot compliant bootloader (e.g grub) can access them. This greatly varies depending on your hardware setup of course. I generally recommend using qemu if you want quickly run and test the VM images. Expanding on the note about QEMU, our x86 VMM relies on using hardware virtualization support (VT-x) to run. Thus your host machine needs to have VT-x enabled/supported (which can usually be determined by cat-ing your '/proc/cpuinfo' and grep-ing for the 'vmx' flag). In addition you need to have KVM installed and nested virtualization enabled (since we are running our VMM in a virtualized environment, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KVM#Nested_virtualization has instructions for enabling), As shown in the VM tutorial (https://docs.sel4.systems/Tutorials/camkes-vm-linux.html), there's an example command to run the CAmkES VM: sudo ./simulate --machine q35,accel=kvm,kernel-irqchip=split --mem-size 2G --extra-cpu-opts "+vmx" --extra-qemu-args="-enable-kvm -device intel-iommu,intremap=off -net nic,model=e1000 -net tap,script=no,ifname=tap0" Or if running the images built in the camkes-vm-examples project (since this doesn't generate a simulate script): qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35,accel=kvm,kernel-irqchip=split -cpu Nehalem,+vme,+pdpe1gb,-xsave,-xsaveopt,-xsavec,-fsgsbase,-invpcid,enforce,+vmx -nographic -serial mon:stdio -m size=2G -enable-kvm -device intel-iommu,intremap=off -net nic,model=e1000 -net tap,script=no,ifname=tap0 -kernel images/kernel-x86_64-pc99 -initrd images/capdl-loader-image-x86_64-pc99 Hope this answers your questions.