Re: [ANNOUNCE] KVM Microconference at LPC 2023

[Babis Chalios]

On 7/6/23 12:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 6/7/23 12:13, Babis Chalios wrote:
> > On our side, we 've been working on providing ways to let VMs (kernel
> >  and user space) know that they have been cloned/snapshotted/restored
> > from snapshots[1].
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> > This is tightly coupled with PRNGs both in kernel and user space and
> >  there needs to be some collaboration with random.c to tie everything
> > together [2][3]. It sounds like it could be a good fit for this MC
> > (?).
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> Does the VM generation ID ACPI device from Microsoft work for you?  It
> is not tied to Hyper-V.
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> Paolo

It's a long story :P

TLDR:

For some use-cases it should be enough [1]. For PRNGs though it doesn't 
seem to work as is. (1) The Linux implementation of VMGENID is racy and 
(2) last year there were long discussions related to the user-space
ABI, which diverged us away from it.

BTW, just saw that you have already submitted the proposal for the MC, 
sorry for being late :)

Cheers,
Babis