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| author | Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com> | 2016-10-28 16:33:23 +0800 |
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| committer | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2016-10-30 20:06:22 +0200 |
| commit | 1653a5f3fc79bc5f3d43b09d23c225c04d4f14d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 02e727093f094d9bb2eb68c1fac428d73d4546e9 /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | 5551e3a88e74c49218a8fc2b28293a8db4a95253 (diff) | |
cryptodev: introduce a new cryptodev backend
The new cryptodev backend named cryptodev-builtin,
which realized by QEMU cipher APIs. These APIs can
be backed by either nettle or gcrypt.
Signed-off-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index b1fbdb08cd..66f1d28b09 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -3948,6 +3948,24 @@ secondary: If you want to know the detail of above command line, you can read the colo-compare git log. +@item -object cryptodev-backend-builtin,id=@var{id}[,queues=@var{queues}] + +Creates a cryptodev backend which executes crypto opreation from +the QEMU cipher APIS. The @var{id} parameter is +a unique ID that will be used to reference this cryptodev backend from +the @option{virtio-crypto} device. The @var{queues} parameter is optional, +which specify the queue number of cryptodev backend, the default of +@var{queues} is 1. + +@example + + # qemu-system-x86_64 \ + [...] \ + -object cryptodev-backend-builtin,id=cryptodev0 \ + -device virtio-crypto-pci,id=crypto0,cryptodev=cryptodev0 \ + [...] +@end example + @item -object secret,id=@var{id},data=@var{string},format=@var{raw|base64}[,keyid=@var{secretid},iv=@var{string}] @item -object secret,id=@var{id},file=@var{filename},format=@var{raw|base64}[,keyid=@var{secretid},iv=@var{string}] |