On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 07:28:47AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote: > if we are adding a chicken bits then I think we should do it for both > "smeonly" and "sevonly". We can boot host OS with SME disabled and SEV > enabled, and still be able to create the SEV guest from the hypervisor. Sure, but is that a real use case? I mean, who would want to run encrypted guests on an unencrypted hypervisor? > How about this ? > > mem_encrypt=on both SME and SEV enabled > mem_encrypt=sev only SEV enabled > mem_encrypt=sme only SME enabled > mem_encrypt=off neither SME/SEV are enabled I like those short mnemonics, ACK. Less typing is always good. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --