Re: Potential project on implementing AMD SEV emulation in QEMU

What do you mean by emulate? Fake the MSRs and CPUID, or actually
provide some memory protection value like the pKVM project?

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
> yesterday in the Coconut-SVSM community call we talked about a
> potential project with the University of Pisa to emulate AMD
> SEV/SEV-ES/SEV-SNP support in QEMU.
>
> Joerg rightly suggested having a step-by-step approach, supporting SEV
> initially, as supporting SEV-SNP directly might be too much for a
> master's thesis (about 6 months of work).
>
> We wondered if you knew of any attempts already made in this regard,
> but especially if you think it's a feasible thing.
>
> Suggestions, ideas or partial works that can be reused are very welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano
>
>


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