Re: [PATCH v4 00/17] Introduce support for IGVM files

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 12:05:38PM +0100, Roy Hopkins wrote:
> Here is v4 of the set of patches to add support for IGVM files to QEMU. This is
> based on commit 1a2d52c7fc of qemu.
> 
> This version addresses all of the review comments from v3 along with a couple of
> small bug fixes. This is a much smaller increment than in the previous version
> of the series [1]. Thanks once again to the reviewers that have been looking at
> this series. This v4 patch series is also available on github: [2]
> 
> The previous version had a build issue when building without debug enabled.
> Patch 8/17 has been added to fix this and I've updated my own process to test
> both debug and release builds of QEMU.
> 
> For testing IGVM support in QEMU you need to generate an IGVM file that is
> configured for the platform you want to launch. You can use the `buildigvm`
> test tool [3] to allow generation of IGVM files for all currently supported
> platforms. Patch 11/17 contains information on how to generate an IGVM file
> using this tool.

Am I right that, currently, we can only use this IGVM support for plain
SEV/SNP boot *without*  SVSM ?  I'm told SVSM has a dependency on host
kernel KVM features not yet upstream, and I presume this means also needs
further QEMU patches ?


With regards,
Daniel
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