KVM With Linux 5.7 Supporting Protected/Secure VM Guests For IBM POWER + s390

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KVM With Linux 5.7 Supporting Protected/Secure VM Guests For IBM POWER + s390

Both of IBM's s390 and POWER CPU architectures are seeing secure/protected guest virtual machine support with KVM on the in-development Linux 5.7 kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.7-KVM-Secure-PPC-s390

[Uqbar]

In a world where even CPUs have security bugs and companies rely heavily on opensource (that is written also by someone else) I wouldn't advertise for anything labelled with "Protected/Secure" without proper and extensive auditing processes in places, from hardware to userland tools.
Which, AFAIK, it's not the case.

[starshipeleven]

In a world where even CPUs have security bugs and companies rely heavily on opensource (that is written also by someone else) I wouldn't advertise for anything labelled with "Protected/Secure" without proper and extensive auditing processes in places, from hardware to userland tools.
Which, AFAIK, it's not the case.

It's still more "protected/secure" than the non-protected mode, so the name is OK.

Really, it's OK even for bullshit cases like Oracle's "Unbreakable Linux", as the name becomes a meme of the product.