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diff --git a/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt b/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt index 9486a22afc..f483795eaa 100644 --- a/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt +++ b/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt @@ -35,10 +35,21 @@ in bad measurement). The guest policy is a 4-byte data structure containing several flags that restricts what can be done on running SEV guest. See KM Spec section 3 and 6.2 for more details. +The guest policy can be provided via the 'policy' property (see below) + +# ${QEMU} \ + sev-guest,id=sev0,policy=0x1...\ + Guest owners provided DH certificate and session parameters will be used to establish a cryptographic session with the guest owner to negotiate keys used for the attestation. +The DH certificate and session blob can be provided via 'dh-cert-file' and +'session-file' property (see below + +# ${QEMU} \ + sev-guest,id=sev0,dh-cert-file=<file1>,session-file=<file2> + LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA encrypts the memory region using the cryptographic context created via LAUNCH_START command. If required, this command can be called multiple times to encrypt different memory regions. The command also calculates @@ -59,6 +70,12 @@ context. See SEV KM API Spec [1] 'Launching a guest' usage flow (Appendix A) for the complete flow chart. +To launch a SEV guest + +# ${QEMU} \ + -machine ...,memory-encryption=sev0 \ + -object sev-guest,id=sev0,cbitpos=47,reduced-phys-bits=1 + Debugging ----------- Since memory contents of SEV guest is encrypted hence hypervisor access to the |