20–24 Sept 2021
US/Pacific timezone

Debug Support for Confidential VMs

21 Sept 2021, 08:35
20m
Microconference2/Virtual-Room (LPC Virtual)

Microconference2/Virtual-Room

LPC Virtual

150
Confidential Computing MC Confidential Computing MC

Speaker

Ashish Kalra

Description

Debug Support for AMD SEV Encrypted VMs.

Discussion on QEMU debug support for memory encrypted guests like AMD SEV/Intel TDX.
Debug requires access to the guest pages, which are encrypted when SEV/TDX is enabled.

Discussion on exploring common interfaces which can be re-used for both
AMD SEV and Intel TDX platforms with regard to encrypted guest memory access for
debug in Qemu.

Latest posted patches on qemu-devel list from the Intel TDX team:
[RFC][PATCH v1 00/10] Enable encrypted guest memory access in QEMU
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20210506014037.11982-1-yuan.yao@linux.intel.com/

Link to the last posted patch-set from AMD:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/cover.1605316268.git.ashish.kalra@amd.com/

Original discussion thread on qemu-devel list :
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20200922201124.GA6606@ashkalra_ubuntu_server/

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Primary author

Ashish Kalra

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