On April 9, Proxmox – the European open-source IT infrastructure software provider – released version 8.4 of its server virtualization management platform, Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE).
This version comes with a range of improvements and new features, including CanaryBit’s Confidential Computing Remote Attestation support for AMD SEV-SNP:
Initial support for AMD SEV-SNP (Secure Nested Paging).
- – On supported setups, SEV-SNP can further increase isolation between host and guest.
- – As EFI disks are not supported when using SEV-SNP, print a warning that EFI disks are ignored
Remote attestation is a core component of Confidential Computing that helps verify the integrity of a processing environment for both cloud and on-prem setups, building trust on the infrastructure provider and ensuring compliance with global data privacy regulations.
With more than 1.5 million hosts and more than 200,000 active community members, Proxmox VE is becoming the worldwide Enterprise alternative to virtualization platforms such as Broadcom/VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V and others.
We are very impressed by the work Proxmox has done over the last 20 years in the open infrastructure virtualization space, and we will continue to contribute with Confidential Computing support for other hardware platform, such as Intel TDX and NVIDIA H100+.
For more information, please read the Proxmox VE v8.4 Release Notes.
