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Confidential guest reset on QEMU hypervisor: Design choices and approach

Red Hat News - Fri, 04/24/2026 - 08:00
Looking at the release notes or changelogs for QEMU upstream, you might notice that there's something new in version 11.0:SEV-SNP and TDX machines can now be reset.This is a feature we at Red Hat helped implement. The motivations and associated challenges have been explained in detail in a FOSDEM 2026 presentation. Before this feature was available, some confidential guests (AMD SEV-based guests) could be reset normally like other non-confidential guests. Other confidential guests (like TDX, SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests) would terminate if a reset was attempted (for example, when you initiate a r

Confidential clusters for Red Hat OpenShift: Developer Preview now available on Microsoft Azure with AMD SEV-SNP

Red Hat News - Fri, 04/24/2026 - 08:00
Extending confidential computing from individual workloads to the entire cluster is a new frontier in cloud-native security.Today, Red Hat is announcing the Developer Preview of confidential clusters for Red Hat OpenShift, a new feature of OpenShift that extends confidential computing to the cluster infrastructure level. Confidential clusters establish hardware-rooted trust across every node in an OpenShift cluster, creating a fully attested, encrypted, and verifiable execution environment from the ground up.This Developer Preview is available today for OpenShift on Microsoft Azure, powered by

Opera GX Browser Gets Flatpak'ed & Snap'ed On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 04/24/2026 - 05:22
Last month Opera released the Opera GX gaming-focused web browser for Linux. It rolled out in RPM and Debian package format support while now for those interested is also available via Flatpak and Snap sandboxed app formats...

Linux 7.1 Removes Some Obsolete PCMCIA Drivers That Likely Haven't Been Used In Years

Phoronix - Fri, 04/24/2026 - 04:18
In addition to some network drivers on the chopping block due to AI bug reports for obsolete hardware/drivers and Linux 7.1 dropping various drivers for Russia's Baikal CPUs, the Linux 7.1 kernel as of today also dropped some obsolete PCMCIA host controller drivers...

Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 04/24/2026 - 04:03
Oracle announced today they are going to be reducing the frequency of software updates for Solaris 11.4 and their ZFS Storage Appliance software...

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