Re: [RFC/GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.2

[Sasha Levin]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 11:34 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 11/10/2011 11:14 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> >> > Trying and failing.  sVirt will deny access to all files except those
>> >> > explicitly allowed by libvirt.
>> >>
>> >> It still allows the guest to read more than enough files which it
>> >> shouldn't be reading.
>> >>
>> >> Unless you configure sVirt on a per-guest basis...
>> >
>> > sVirt is per-guest.
>>
>> It still would mean that the guest can access any file (actually, even
>> device, no?) the hypervisor can access.
>
> It does, but the hypervisor can only access the guest's images, and a
> few internal files (like the qemu-kvm executable and its libraries).

What about devices? You let the guest read and write to devices as
well (/dev/kvm for example, or network devices).
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