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Re: Encrypted virtual machines

 

I'm looking into it, but I'm not sure if that's really how I want it to be.
;)
Thanks for the hint.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Razique Mahroua
<razique.mahroua@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> I dunno how the integration is going regarding the encrypted images, but
> you can if you can use encrypted images with qemu/ qemu-kvm.
> If your disk is an encrypted qcow2 image, by typing "cont" in the qemu/
> qemu-kvm monitor, you would see something like this :
>
> QEMU 0.11.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> (qemu) cont
> ide0-hd0 (encrypted.qcow2) is encrypted.
> Password: ********
> (qemu)
>
> By providing your password, the instance should boot normally. I haven't
> noticed any perf. issues, since once the image is decrypted, it acts like a
> normal image. Maybe you weren't thinking to that encryption ?
>
> *Nuage & Co - Razique Mahroua** *
> razique.mahroua@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Le 26 avr. 2012 à 17:53, Michael Grosser a écrit :
>
> Hey,
>
> I'm following the openstack development for some time now and I was
> wondering if there was a solution to spin up encrypted virtual machines by
> default and if it would be a huge performance blow.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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