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AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel


AMD's upstreaming effort around Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) to the mainline Linux kernel appears to be nearly wrapped up with the latest hypervisor patches now at their fourteenth revision.

While AMD has maintained an out-of-tree kernel repository on GitHub with all of their latest SEV encryption bits for VMs, the effort of getting all of the SEV-SNP code into the mainline Linux kernel since the launch of the EPYC 7003 series has been quite a lengthy affair. Here's to hopefully seeing this work wrap up soon for having a compelling upstreamed solution for securing VMs and embracing confidential computing. Try it today to view our site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and more while the proceeds allow us to write more Linux hardware reviews.

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