On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:50:19AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > > Hi, > > one cannot boot vmm-bios if not having newer hw than Westmere CPU. > And booting host kernel for a VM which has FDE does not work, that's clear. > > What about a feature to support somehow softraid-crypto (or similar) for > vmctl create? > > A variation for native LUKS support in QEMU: > > qemu ... -object secret,id=sec0,data='secretpass' \ > -drive driver=luks,key-secret=sec0,file=diskfile > > The use case here is not to have plain VMM disk file on > host (I'm using softraid-crypto for underlying device now). > > Jiri >
while that might be interesting and I'd be receptive to seeing a diff to do that, I think a better use of time would be to port x86emu into vmm and let that do that bios part for CPUs < westmere. Plus, that will be needed for SMP bringup eventually anyway. -ml
