From 663b9db98ede66c36b8703670f3b9ac325846f10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brijesh Singh Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 14:09:46 -0500 Subject: Add virt-manager faq --- README.md | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index feb960f..28007cb 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ * [ FAQ ](#faq) * [ How do I know if Hypervisor supports SEV ](#faq-1) * [ How do I know if SEV is enabled in the guest](#faq-2) + * [ Can I use virt-manager to launch SEV guest](#faq-3) + # Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) @@ -274,7 +276,7 @@ for additional information. > See [QMP doc](https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt) for details on how to interact with QMP shell. - + * How do I know if SEV is enabled in the guest ? a) Check the kernel log buffer for the following message @@ -292,3 +294,10 @@ for additional information. Bit[0]: 0 = SEV is not active 1 = SEV is active + + + * Can I use virt-manager to launch SEV guest? + + virt-manager uses libvirt to manage VMs, SEV support has been added in libvirt but virt-manager does use the newly introduced [LaunchSecurity](https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#sev) tags yet hence we will not able to launch SEV guest through the virt-manager. + > If your system is using libvirt >= 4.15 then you can manually edit the xml file to use [LaunchSecurity](https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#sev) to enable the SEV support in the guest. + -- cgit v1.2.3-71-gd317