11–13 Dec 2025
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Discussion: TDISP, VM migration, and paravisors

12 Dec 2025, 12:30
25m
"Hall B2 (63)" (Toranomon Hills Mori Tower)

"Hall B2 (63)"

Toranomon Hills Mori Tower

Confidential Computing MC Confidential Computing MC

Speaker

John Starks (Microsoft)

Description

TDISP, designed to allow a confidential VM to establish a trust relationship with a PCI device, creates new headaches for the Linux PCI stack and for virtualization components:

  • Evaluating whether a device is trustworthy.
  • Establishing trust with the device.
  • And in particular, re-establishing trust across a VM migration to a different physical device, without workload disruption.

Solving these problems natively in the Linux PCI stack comes with one set of challenges. Solving this underneath Linux in a trusted paravisor comes with a different set of tradeoffs.

We propose to guide a discussion around different solutions to this to determine what's most acceptable for the Linux community.

Potential interested stakeholders:
* Joerg Rodel
* Dan Williams

Primary authors

Chris Oo (Microsoft) John Starks (Microsoft) Jon Lange (Microsoft)

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