On Thu, Nov 25, 2021, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24 2021 at 16:19, isaku yamahata wrote: > > From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Add a capability to effectively allow userspace to query what VM types > > are supported by KVM. > > I really don't see why this has to be named legacy. There are enough > reasonable use cases which are perfectly fine using the non-encrypted > muck. Just because there is a new hyped feature does not make anything > else legacy. Yeah, this was brought up in the past. The current proposal is to use KVM_X86_DEFAULT_VM[1], though at one point the plan was to use a generic KVM_VM_TYPE_DEFAULT for all architectures[2], not sure what happened to that idea. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YY6aqVkHNEfEp990@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YQsjQ5aJokV1HZ8N@xxxxxxxxxx/
