Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Introducing guest driven VM launch update mechanism (BYOF interface)

"Graf (AWS), Alexander" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.nongnu.qemu-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 30.07.26 09:12, Ani Sinha wrote:
> This is the resurrection of the work that was previously discussed here:
> https://lists.endsoftwarepatents.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2025-03/msg05872.html
>
> This relates to the 'bring your own firmware' work that we are driving at Red Hat,
> now with IGVM support.
>
> The patchset includes a spec doc that has more details.
>
> This patchset implements the hypervisor interface using fw-cfg. Using this interface, the guest
> can pass its own IGVM file to the hypervisor. Upon reset, the hypervisor re-initializes the guest
> using the IGVM file the guest provided.  This is useful in order to have deterministic and trustworthy
> launch measurements, mostly for the cloud confidential guest deployments.
>
> This patchset has added functional and unit tests that exercize the hypervisor interface. It has been
> tested for both confidential guests and non-confidential guests. Gerd has also independently tested
> the patchset.


Very nice, thanks a bunch for pushing this through!

Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <[email protected]>


Alex
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