Rusty Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > Just finished my prototype of inter-guest virtio, using networking as an > example. Each guest mmaps the other's address space and uses a FIFO for > notifications. > >
Isn't that a security hole (hole? chasm)? If the two guests can access each other's memory, they might as well be just one guest, and communicate internally. My feeling is that the host needs to copy the data, using dma if available. Another option is to have one guest map the other's memory for read and write, while the other guest is unprivileged. This allows one privileged guest to provide services for other, unprivileged guests, like domain 0 or driver domains in Xen. -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
