[Help Welcome] KVM Development - staying the course

You’ve included everything important from the L1TF thread. Reviewing the KVM options from here, I don’t think it would ever make sense in context of a host OS. To tighten KVM options for non-Whonix guests, one would either use Kicksecure or its config which includes my changes.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt#n2080


As an aside it seems the new kernel command turns all mitigations on including disabling SMT. I think it’s more manageable if you switch to using that instead of specifying every knob.

mitigations=auto,nosmt
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