Intel® Trust Domain Extensions(TDX) refers to an Intel technology that extends Virtual Machine Extensions(VMX) and Multi-Key Total Memory Encryption(MK-TME) with a new kind of virtual machine guest called a Trust Domain(TD). A TD runs in a CPU mode that protects the confidentiality of its memory contents and its CPU state from any other software, including the hosting Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). Please get more details from TDX White Papers and Specifications
- Azure already launched the
TDX based confidential computing at zone of
DCesv5andECesv5series. - Google published Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) Security Review
- Please contact Intel sales representative for on-premise bare metal server or processor.
Please see details at here:
Linux Stack for Intel® TDX is an end-to-end hypervisor cloud stack including the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) components.
It produce the following minimal use cases:
- Launch Intel® TDX guest VM to run general computing workloads
- Do launch-time measurement within the Intel® TDX guest VM
- Do runtime attestation with the quote generated by Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)-based quote generation service (QGS) on the IaaS host
It provides the below tools for developer:
- Build individual component's package or install pre-build binaries on IaaS host or create PaaS guest image for quick evaluation
- Generate the patch set for deep dive in source code level
- Test, hack and debug the TDX technology based on PyCloudStack framework
- Dump guest VM measurement and generate TD quote report for TDX E2E attestation
- Measured boot and Secure boot for TDX guest VM
tdx-tools keeps evolving along with kernel version. It supports kernel 5.15, kernel 5.19 and kernel 6.2. Please refer to corresponding tag for different kernel version support. Please make sure to use the corresponding tag aligned with kernel version.
| Tag | Kernel version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2022ww44 | 5.15 | TDX 1.0 |
| 2023ww01 | 5.19 | TDX 1.0 |
| 2023ww15 | 6.2 | TDX 1.5 |
Linux Stack for Intel® TDX includes the components in below diagram:
| Name | Stack | Description |
|---|---|---|
| TDX Kernel | Host + Guest | Linux kernel for TDX |
| TDX Qemu-KVM | Host | Qemu VMM for TDX |
| TDX SEAM Module | Host | TDX Secure Arbitration Module |
| TDX Migration | Host | Migration TD for live migration |
| TDX Libvirt | Host | The modified libvirt to create TDX guest domain via Qemu |
| TDVF | Host | The modified OVMF(Open Source Virtual Firmware) to support TDX guest boot like page accept, TDX measurement |
| TDX Grub2 | Guest | The modified grub for guest VM to support TDX measurement |
| TDX shim | Guest | The modified shim for guest VM to support TDX measurement |
Please refer the white paper: Linux*Stacks for Intel® Trust Domain Extension 1.0 (only cover TDX 1.0) and wiki for additional informational about TDX 1.5 or developer specific.
| Type | Content |
|---|---|
| BKM | Check Memory Encryption |
| BKM | Enable IMA with TDX RTMR |
| Developer | Developer Guide |
| Developer | Off TD GDB Debug |
| 1.5 | TD Migration |