> On Mar 28, 2022, at 1:16 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 6:09 AM Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> This is the v5 of this series which tries to implement the fd-based KVM >> guest private memory. The patches are based on latest kvm/queue branch >> commit: >> >> d5089416b7fb KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_CAP_DISABLE_QUIRKS2 > > Can this series be run and a VM booted without TDX? A feature like > that might help push it forward. > > —Andy Since the userspace VMM (e.g. QEMU) loses direct access to private memory of the VM, the guest needs to avoid using the private memory for (virtual) DMA buffers, for example. Otherwise, it would need to use bounce buffers, i.e. we would need changes to the VM. I think we can try that (i.e. add only bounce buffer changes). What do you think? Thanks, --- Jun