• [$] Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Fri Jul 25 16:00:09 2025
    [$] Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

    Date:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:55:01 +0000

    Description:
    There is an inherent limit to the privacy of the public cloud. While Linux
    can isolate virtual machines (VMs) from each other,
    nothing in the system's memory is ultimately out of reach for the host cloud provider. To accommodate the most privacy-conscious clients, confidential computing protects the memory of guests, even from
    hypervisors. But the Linux cloud stack needs to be rethought in order to host confidential VMs, juggling two goals that are often at odds: performance
    and security.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1030818/


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