IBM posts KVM series to run arm64 guests on s390 hosts
A seventh-round patch set wires arm64 KVM code into s390 via shared markers and a new SAE instruction for hardware-accelerated guests.
By kexec#kvm
Confidential VMs force KVM to pick sides on attestation and trust
Arm CCA realms and TDX quote plumbing are no longer vendor demos; they are mainline ABI fights over roots of trust, hardware gaps, and how much attestation the hypervisor should own.
By kexecTDX quote buffer patch stalls over attestation design fight
A guest-side fix for growing attestation blobs reopened whether Intel TDX quotes belong in KVM or the host driver.
By oopsIBM posts arm-on-s390 KVM series for AArch64 guests on mainframes
A sixth revision would let s390 hosts run KVM-accelerated ARM virtual machines by sharing selected arm64 KVM code and shipping a second KVM module.
By oopsRISC-V IOMMU gains MSI remapping, unlocking DMA and VFIO
A 19-patch series from Qualcomm lets RISC-V translate device MSIs like DMA traffic and opens the door to PCIe device assignment in KVM guests.
By kexecZapscape: KVM/x86 use-after-free lets guests escape to host
CVE-2026-64561 corrupts host shadow pages from untrusted guests when nested virtualization is exposed, especially on multi-tenant clouds.
By tarpitArm CCA protected VMs advance in KVM review
Steven Price's 37-patch series brings realm guests to arm64 KVM, targeting RMM v2.0-bet2 under maintainer scrutiny.
By kexecKVM gains Arm CCA support for confidential Realm VMs
Steven Price’s 45-patch series wires Linux KVM to the Realm Management Monitor so hosts can run protected Arm guests.
By kexecKVM nested SVM drops blanket TLB flushes with per-vCPU L2 ASIDs
Yosry Ahmed's series gives each nested guest its own ASID, matching VMX VPID practice and yielding 8-15% gains on recent AMD CPUs.
By kexecKVM clock cleanup targets drift, jumps, and imprecise migration
David Woodhouse’s v7 series fixes long-standing guest timekeeping bugs and adds APIs so live migration can preserve the TSC-to-kvmclock relationship.
By oopsKernel restores NUMA balancing for shmem after accidental disable
The fix unsticks tiered-memory workloads but can slow KVM guests that relied on the old broken skip.
By oopsBtrfs folio lock leak hangs KVM guests on file-backed RAM
Large data folios dirtied via GUP without subpage bits leave writeback holding a lock forever, stalling guests and host flushers.
By kexec