QEMU is failing to launch a CGS pSeries guest in a host that has PEF
support:
qemu-system-ppc64: ../softmmu/vl.c:2585: qemu_machine_creation_done: Assertion `machine->cgs->ready' failed.
Aborted
This is happening because we're not setting the cgs->ready flag that is
asserted in qemu_machine_creation_done() during machine start.
cgs->ready is set in s390_pv_kvm_init() and sev_kvm_init(). Let's set it
in kvmppc_svm_init() as well.
Reported-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210528201619.52363-1-danielhb413@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
We haven't yet implemented the fairly involved handshaking that will be
needed to migrate PEF protected guests. For now, just use a migration
blocker so we get a meaningful error if someone attempts this (this is the
same approach used by AMD SEV).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Some upcoming POWER machines have a system called PEF (Protected
Execution Facility) which uses a small ultravisor to allow guests to
run in a way that they can't be eavesdropped by the hypervisor. The
effect is roughly similar to AMD SEV, although the mechanisms are
quite different.
Most of the work of this is done between the guest, KVM and the
ultravisor, with little need for involvement by qemu. However qemu
does need to tell KVM to allow secure VMs.
Because the availability of secure mode is a guest visible difference
which depends on having the right hardware and firmware, we don't
enable this by default. In order to run a secure guest you need to
create a "pef-guest" object and set the confidential-guest-support
property to point to it.
Note that this just *allows* secure guests, the architecture of PEF is
such that the guest still needs to talk to the ultravisor to enter
secure mode. Qemu has no direct way of knowing if the guest is in
secure mode, and certainly can't know until well after machine
creation time.
To start a PEF-capable guest, use the command line options:
-object pef-guest,id=pef0 -machine confidential-guest-support=pef0
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Daniel Henrique Barboza
David Gibson