kvm smm mode support?

Gerd Hoffmann
2014-04-25T07:39:19Z

Hi,

Anyone has plans to add smm support to kvm?

We have two potential use cases meanwhile:

(1) OVMF could use it to implement the LockBox (storage area the
OS can't tamper with, needed to make secure boot actually secure).

(2) SeaBIOS considers using a SMM trampoline to switch into 32bit mode
for device drivers. See
http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2014-April/007957.html

cheers,
Gerd