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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: AESNI and guest hosts
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:04:10 +0200
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On 02/15/2012 02:02 PM, Ryan Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't think it's supported to pass that functionality to the guest.
> >>
> >
> > Why not?  Perhaps a new libvirt or qemu is needed.
> >
>
> Should it be the case to add one of the following?
>
>     <feature name='aes'/>
> or..
>     <feature name='aesni'/>
>
> something like that?

The qemu name is aes.  Don't know about libvirt, suggest you start with
bare qemu first.



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