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From: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v1 16/22] i386: pc: load OS images at
 fixed location in SEV-enabled guest
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: brijesh.singh@amd.com, ehabkost@redhat.com, crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com, armbru@redhat.com, p.fedin@samsung.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com, rth@twiddle.net

Hi Paolo,

On 09/21/2016 10:58 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>
> On 21/09/2016 17:55, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>> I'm working on v2 and getting ready for another review but not sure how
>> to address this feedback. For now, I can drop this patch from the series
>> and get other patches reviewed. But I would like to get some direction
>> on how do I go about adding -kernel support for SEV guest.
>
> Don't.  The solution is to use UEFI, which runs in 64-bit mode and can
> do DMA to shared pages.
>

Thanks.

I will explore UEFI BIOS path. Just for confirmation you mean the OVMF 
project [1] right ?

[1] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/OVMF
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How-to-run-OVMF


> Paolo
>