The sev
crate provides an implementation of AMD Secure Encrypted
Virtualization (SEV) APIs.
The Linux kernel exposes two technically distinct AMD SEV APIs:
- An API for managing the SEV platform itself
- An API for managing SEV-enabled KVM virtual machines
This crate implements both of those APIs and offers them to client code through a flexible and type-safe high level interface.
Refer to the firmware
module for more information.
Refer to the launch
module for more information.
Note that the Linux kernel provides access to these APIs through a set
of ioctl
s that are meant to be called on device nodes (/dev/kvm
and
/dev/sev
, to be specific). As a result, these ioctl
s form the substrate
of the sev
crate. Binaries that result from consumers of this crate are
expected to run as a process with the necessary privileges to interact
with the device nodes.
License: Apache-2.0