On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 01:24:31PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >> I strongly disagree. You are advocating something that is >> potentially unsafe---for the sake of code simplicity?! I am >> advocating caution in what we let an *untrusted* guest do. > > Why would it be unsafe?
Because on at least one machine letting a device DMA to the same address as another device's MMIO region caused the machine to reboot. Cheers, Muli -- The First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08) Dec 2008, San Diego, CA, http://www.usenix.org/wiov08/ xxx SYSTOR 2009---The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2009/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
