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

[Stefano Garzarella]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 at 18:08, Dionna Amalie Glaze
<dionnaglaze at google.com> wrote:
>
> What do you mean by emulate? Fake the MSRs and CPUID, or actually
> provide some memory protection value like the pKVM project?

The first, perhaps I should have explained the ultimate goal better:
Test/develop SVSM and guest OS interaction without having the hardware in place.

Stefano

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