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More KVM Changes Merged For Linux 6.16: AMD "ALLOWED_SEV_FEATURES" Merged


Following the Intel TDX host support for KVM being merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window, another batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were merged for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window.

Among the AMD SEV changes is adding support for the "ALLOWED_SEV_FEATURES" VMCB field as a feature found with EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. These newest AMD EPYC processors allow the hypervisor to control the SEV features that are set for or by a guest VM. More details on these latest KVM changes for Linux 6.16 via this merge request that has since landed in Git.

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