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SubjectRe: [RFC v2] KVM: x86: Support KVM VMs sharing SEV context
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On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 16:20 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 02/04/21 13:58, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> > Hi Nathan,
> >
> > Will you be posting a corresponding Qemu patch for this ?
>
> Hi Ashish,
>
> as far as I know IBM is working on QEMU patches for guest-based
> migration helpers.

Yes, that's right, we'll take on this part.

> However, it would be nice to collaborate on the low-level (SEC/PEI)
> firmware patches to detect whether a CPU is part of the primary VM
> or the mirror. If Google has any OVMF patches already done for that,
> it would be great to combine it with IBM's SEV migration code and
> merge it into upstream OVMF.

We've reached the stage with our prototyping where not having the OVMF
support is blocking us from working on QEMU. If we're going to have to
reinvent the wheel in OVMF because Google is unwilling to publish the
patches, can you at least give some hints about how you did it?

Thanks,

James


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