Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:35:34 +0000 | From | Sean Christopherson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v3 14/59] KVM: x86: Add vm_type to differentiate legacy VMs from protected VMs |
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24 2021 at 16:19, isaku yamahata wrote: > > From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> > > > > Add a capability to effectively allow userspace to query what VM types > > are supported by KVM. > > I really don't see why this has to be named legacy. There are enough > reasonable use cases which are perfectly fine using the non-encrypted > muck. Just because there is a new hyped feature does not make anything > else legacy.
Yeah, this was brought up in the past. The current proposal is to use KVM_X86_DEFAULT_VM[1], though at one point the plan was to use a generic KVM_VM_TYPE_DEFAULT for all architectures[2], not sure what happened to that idea.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YY6aqVkHNEfEp990@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YQsjQ5aJokV1HZ8N@google.com/
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