[svsm-devel] Potential project on implementing AMD SEV emulation in QEMU

[Dionna Amalie Glaze]

What do you mean by emulate? Fake the MSRs and CPUID, or actually
provide some memory protection value like the pKVM project?

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
> yesterday in the Coconut-SVSM community call we talked about a
> potential project with the University of Pisa to emulate AMD
> SEV/SEV-ES/SEV-SNP support in QEMU.
>
> Joerg rightly suggested having a step-by-step approach, supporting SEV
> initially, as supporting SEV-SNP directly might be too much for a
> master's thesis (about 6 months of work).
>
> We wondered if you knew of any attempts already made in this regard,
> but especially if you think it's a feasible thing.
>
> Suggestions, ideas or partial works that can be reused are very welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano
>
>


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-Dionna Glaze, PhD, CISSP, CCSP (she/her)