Re: [Qemu-devel] libvirt/QEMU/SEV interaction

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 09/08/17 17:51, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 10:48:10AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:

>> I am looking at [1] to get the feel for how do we model it in the XML.
>> As you can see I am using ad-hoc <qemu:args> to create the sev-guest
>> object. Currently, sev-guest object accepts the following properties:
>>
>> dh-cert-file: <file containing the GO DH key>
>> session-info-file: <file contain the GO session info>
>> policy: <int32 GO policy>
>>
>> I believe the new XML model will influence the property input type,
>> Any recommendation on how do model this part ? thank you so much.
> 
> That looks ok to me - even if QEMU wants the data provided in
> files on disk, libvirt can just create the files on the fly
> from the data it has in the <sev> element in the XML file.
> Since they're only needed during startup, libvirt can then
> easily delete the files the moment QEMU has completed its
> startup.

/dev/fd/N filenames could be used for poor man's fd passing, I think.

(/dev/fd is a symlink to the /proc/self/fd directory)

proc(5) has documentation on this.

Thanks,
Laszlo