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Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format

• deleted 3y ago
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• mdaniel 3y ago
  And this differs from ova ... how? (I mean, aside from the obvious EEE jokes, and their "but now in rust" peers) I am always skeptical when someone yolos a new file format without a competitive analysis section, since (a) that makes it very hard for a consumer to know if their interests are aligned (b) it can often smell like NIH if the section is missing
  • deelowe 3y ago
    I think you already answered the question.
  • dwattttt 3y ago
    By the look of it this format is designed to specifically support measurements to confirm the guest was loaded without modification, a la TPM style assertion of integrity.
  • deleted 3y ago
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• BearhatBeer 3y ago
  How come a file format has a .cargo directory in the project tree?
  • dwattttt 3y ago
    It's defining build flags for the library containing the definition. I'd encourage people to read it, it's very documented by build flag standards: https://github.com/microsoft/igvm/blob/main/.cargo/config.toml https://github.com/microsoft/igvm/blob/main/.cargo/config.to...
• ThePowerOfFuet 3y ago
  https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/