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On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 01:25:19AM +0000, Adin Kapul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I am curious what prevents (even if not completely untrusted) implementation 
> of a storage driver domain. 
> 
> 
> It is discussed in the architecture document, and has been alluded to by 
> Joanna, so I'd assume that this is an eventual aim of the Qubes project.
> 
> 
> 
> The process is relatively simple on stock Xen, and Qubes already supports 
> using AppVMs as storage driver domains to serve locally-stored images (just 
> as Dom0 stores guest images) to other guests, so I'm curious what obstacles 
> there are to implementing this for the main guest storage, or is it simply a 
> case of it not being a priority and no one having worked on it?

Moving all the storage to separate domain means that dom0 have no direct
access to hard drive. This makes boot process much more complex - for
example dom0 also needs to be booted somehow - to start that storage
domain. This, to be meaningful in any way, require working trusted boot.
And given problems with Intel ME and TXT implementation, there is no
hardware providing it.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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