Re: [PATCH v2] target/i386: Add unaccepted memory configuration

2022-06-30 Thread Dionna Amalie Glaze
> > The most recent patches I recall for SEV-SNP introduced a new > > 'sev-snp-guest' object instead of overloading the existing > > 'sev-guest' object: > > > >https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-08/msg04757.html > > > > Correct, the SNP support for Qemu is only RFC at this point

Re: [PATCH v2] target/i386: Add unaccepted memory configuration

2022-06-30 Thread Tom Lendacky
On 6/30/22 03:14, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 07:37:01PM +, Dionna Glaze wrote: For SEV-SNP, an OS is "SEV-SNP capable" without supporting this UEFI v2.9 memory type. In order for OVMF to be able to avoid pre-validating potentially hundreds of gibibytes of data before b

Re: [PATCH v2] target/i386: Add unaccepted memory configuration

2022-06-30 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 07:37:01PM +, Dionna Glaze wrote: > For SEV-SNP, an OS is "SEV-SNP capable" without supporting this UEFI > v2.9 memory type. In order for OVMF to be able to avoid pre-validating > potentially hundreds of gibibytes of data before booting, it needs to > know if the guest O

Re: [PATCH v2] target/i386: Add unaccepted memory configuration

2022-06-29 Thread Gupta, Pankaj
For SEV-SNP, an OS is "SEV-SNP capable" without supporting this UEFI v2.9 memory type. In order for OVMF to be able to avoid pre-validating potentially hundreds of gibibytes of data before booting, it needs to know if the guest OS can support its use of the new type of memory in the memory map.

[PATCH v2] target/i386: Add unaccepted memory configuration

2022-06-29 Thread Dionna Glaze
For SEV-SNP, an OS is "SEV-SNP capable" without supporting this UEFI v2.9 memory type. In order for OVMF to be able to avoid pre-validating potentially hundreds of gibibytes of data before booting, it needs to know if the guest OS can support its use of the new type of memory in the memory map. Cc