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Re: Upstream QEMU guest support policy ? Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] spapr: Use v


From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: Re: Upstream QEMU guest support policy ? Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] spapr: Use vIOMMU translation for virtio by default
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 03:33:59 -0400

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:12:47PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> I am wondering if we have to introduce an "svm=on" flag anyway.  It's
> pretty ugly, since all it would be doing is changing defaults here and
> there for compatibilty with a possible future SVM transition, but
> maybe it's the best we can do :/.

Frankly I'm surprised there's no way for the hypervisor to block VM
transition to secure mode. To me an inability to disable DRM looks like
a security problem. Does not the ultravisor somehow allow
enabling/disabling this functionality from the hypervisor? It would be
even better if the hypervisor could block the guest from poking at the
ultravisor completely but I guess that would be too much to hope for.






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