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Would OVMF (which > typically would run for a few seconds at boot) need to support that? > Or is that something only the linux kernel (or other guest kernels) > would have to worry about? I doubt OVMF would need to worry about it. It feels likely to me that whatever "reasonable" amount we have SVSM pre-allocate would cover whatever page state transitions OVMF might create. Richard