Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] KVM: x86: Support KVM VMs sharing SEV context | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:36:58 +0100 |
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On 25/02/21 18:53, James Bottomley wrote: > > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/8b824c44-6a51-c3a7-6596-921dc47fea39@linux.ibm.com/ > > It sounds like this mechanism can be used to boot a vCPU through a > mirror VM after the fact, which is very compatible with the above whose > mechanism is simply to steal a VCPU to hold in reset until it's > activated.
Yes, and it's much cleaner because, for example, the extra vCPU need not participate in the ACPI hotplug stuff and can even use a simplified run loop.
Paolo
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