Add support for enabling Secure Encrypted Virtualization in the GUI

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Tue Apr 19 17:21:29 UTC 2022


On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 12:05:29PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 4/4/22 11:49 AM, Charles Arnold wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 4/4/22 6:50 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 12:13:17PM -0600, Charles Arnold wrote:
> >>>  From d700e8cee7cd525c0022b5a9a440f64c4ab149f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >>> From: Charles Arnold <carnold at suse.com>
> >>> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 12:01:21 -0600
> >>> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Add support for enabling Secure Encrypted
> >>> Virtualization
> >>>   in the GUI
> >>>
> >>> Add an "Enable Launch Security" checkbox on the Details memory tab.
> >>> Do the minimal configuration required for libvirt to enable this feature
> >>> on compatible hardware.
> >>>
> >> Don't we need to turn on the 'iommu' option for all virtio devices
> >> too, and disable PXE on any NICs ?
> >>
> >> https://libvirt.org/kbase/launch_security_sev.html#virtio
> >>
> > 
> > I used to enumerate through the virtio devices in an old version of this
> > patch
> > for virt-manager and enable iommu but it really wasn't reasonable for
> > virt-manager to track which virtio devices needed iommu enabled.
> > Additionally,
> > libvirt will sometimes add a device when a VM is created. This patch
> > leans on libvirt to do the right thing when sev is enabled similar to what
> > happens when launch security is specified on the virt-install command line.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I would still like to see libvirt do this unless there's a good
> reason why it can't. From my July 2020 mail
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2020-July/017087.html
> 
> > if sev
> > launchSecurity _requires_ every virtio device to have iommu='on' then
> > libvirt should be setting that itself. It doesn't need to hardcode it
> > into the XML, it can set it at VM startup time. If the user set an
> > explicit value in the XML then honor that but otherwise fill it in at
> > runtime when it is required. Trying to deal with this in an app where we
> > want to advertise turning the config off is basically an impossible
> > problem to know if we are going to undo any explicit user config or not.
> 
> danpb does this sound reasonable? If so I can work on this.

Something automagic sounds ok

> Also, anyone know if TDX and SNP will require virtio iommu setting as well?

I expect SNP will, but no idea about TDX.

With regards,
Daniel
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