WSL is categorized as a container for practical purposes.
Multiple WSL environments share the same kernel and services
should generally behave like when being run in a container.</para>
+
+ <para>When executed with <option>--cvm</option>, instead of
+ printing the virtualization technology, it will display the
+ confidential virtual machine technology, if any. The
+ following technologies are currently identified:</para>
+
+ <table>
+ <title>Known confidential virtualization technologies</title>
+ <tgroup cols='2' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
+ <colspec colname="id" />
+ <colspec colname="product" />
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Arch</entry>
+ <entry>ID</entry>
+ <entry>Technology</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry valign="top" morerows="3">x86_64</entry>
+ <entry><varname>sev</varname></entry>
+ <entry>AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>sev-es</varname></entry>
+ <entry>AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Encrypted State</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>sev-snp</varname></entry>
+ <entry>AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Secure Nested Paging</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>tdx</varname></entry>
+ <entry>Intel Trust Domain Extensions</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>s390x</entry>
+ <entry><varname>protvirt</varname></entry>
+ <entry>IBM Protected Virtualization (Secure Execution)</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>