I don’t think this is the fault of Qualcomm. For some reason I can’t get behind, this feature requires some virtualization mode with lowered security features. The older Qcom chips only support regular secured VMs.
For some reason I can’t get behind, this feature requires some virtualization mode with lowered security features.
The usual virtualized devices like network cards (that are already supported by Linux distributions like Debian) work by the hypervisor intercepting memory access to certain memory regions. Perhaps it’s not viable to support these with the secure approach where the VM is protected from Android.
This article states the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, the latest Snapdragon chip, does not support non-protected VMs. This doesn’t seem to be a feature taking a while to be implemented, they’ve made the deliberate decision not to add support for this, just as other vendors have decided the opposite.
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I don’t think this is the fault of Qualcomm. For some reason I can’t get behind, this feature requires some virtualization mode with lowered security features. The older Qcom chips only support regular secured VMs.
The usual virtualized devices like network cards (that are already supported by Linux distributions like Debian) work by the hypervisor intercepting memory access to certain memory regions. Perhaps it’s not viable to support these with the secure approach where the VM is protected from Android.
This article states the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, the latest Snapdragon chip, does not support non-protected VMs. This doesn’t seem to be a feature taking a while to be implemented, they’ve made the deliberate decision not to add support for this, just as other vendors have decided the opposite.