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| author | Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> | 2024-12-11 22:25:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> | 2025-01-13 17:16:04 +0100 |
| commit | d024d0adf48e28d4f93161878053936d55dab9c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 041c621b15b63bf8c03c05d58e5ddce325d6dc0a | |
| parent | 74f1caa8c33f608168c4224bb23d9a6453224a56 (diff) | |
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docs/nitro-enclave: Clarify Enclave and Firecracker relationship
The documentation says that Nitro Enclaves are based on Firecracker.
AWS has never made that statement.
This patch nudges the wording to instead say it "looks like a
Firecracker microvm".
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Dorjoy Chowdhury <dorjoychy111@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20241211222512.95660-1-graf@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/i386/nitro-enclave.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/system/i386/nitro-enclave.rst b/docs/system/i386/nitro-enclave.rst index 48eda5b..7317f54 100644 --- a/docs/system/i386/nitro-enclave.rst +++ b/docs/system/i386/nitro-enclave.rst @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ the enclave VM gets a dynamic CID. Enclaves use an EIF (`Enclave Image Format`_) file which contains the necessary kernel, cmdline and ramdisk(s) to boot. In QEMU, ``nitro-enclave`` is a machine type based on ``microvm`` similar to how -AWS nitro enclaves are based on `Firecracker`_ microvm. This is useful for +AWS nitro enclaves look like a `Firecracker`_ microvm. This is useful for local testing of EIF files using QEMU instead of running real AWS Nitro Enclaves which can be difficult for debugging due to its roots in security. The vsock device emulation is done using vhost-user-vsock which means another process that |