Speakers
Description
Confidential Computing MC
Over the last few years, the Confidential Computing microconferences at LPC have been a key driver in advancing support for trusted execution workloads across the Linux virtualization and software ecosystem.
As a result of the previous confidential computing microconference, the following major features were merged:
- SEV-SNP support
- TDX support
- TDISP Infrastructure
- SEV-TIO support
- SVSM guest-side support
The microconference at LPC serves as the key in-person event for Linux-related developments, as well as an important platform for standardizing confidential computing features across different platforms.
The open source software stack for confidential computing is still far from being complete. There remain many problems to be solved and functionality to enable. Some of the most important ongoing developments are:
- Enhancements to CVM memory backing via guest_memfd
- KVM Support for ARM CCA
- Privilege separation features in KVM
- CVM live migration.
- Secure VM Service Module architecture and Linux support
- Trusted I/O software architecture
Further topics to discuss are:
- Solutions for the full CVM (remote) attestation problem
- Linux as a CVM operating system across hypervisors
- CVM Performance
The Confidential Computing microconference of 2026 wants to bring open source developers and industry experts together into productive discussions and to collaborate on solutions for the open problems.
Key attendees:
- Ashish Kalra ashish.kalra@amd.com
- Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de
- Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com
- Daniel P. Berrangé berrange@redhat.com
- David Hansen dhansen@linux.intel.com
- David Kaplan David.Kaplan@amd.com
- David Rientjes rientjes@google.com
- Dhaval Giani dhaval.giani@gmail.com
- Elena Reshetova elena.reshetova@intel.com
- James Bottomley James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
- Joerg Roedel joro@8bytes.org
- Jon Lange jlange@microsoft.com
- Michael Roth michael.roth@amd.com
- Mike Rapoport rppt@kernel.org
- Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com
- Peter Fang peter.fang@intel.com
- Peter Gonda pgonda@google.com
- Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com
- Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com
- Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com