Is a passthrough VGA configuration currently considered stable and secure for widespread use, for example, where non-technical users can work productively with applications running this way in an office environment?
Some specific things come to mind: a) crashes: I've seen crashes mentioned in a few discussions, but are there many people running it for days and weeks at a time without crashes? Are such issues specific to particular hardware and can they be avoided by using hardware that is preferred/more heavily tested by the developers? b) security: in my testing so far, I just run the qemu command as root. To what extent can the use of root privileges be avoided? I realize a VM is never 100% secure compared to a normal user session. c) control: some of the blogs and wikis mention that tools like virt-manager and virt-install don't fully cope with passthrough VGA configuration, is that still up to date? Can the user start and manage the VM using some GUI from their X desktop on their host display? d) interaction between VM and host desktop: when the user locks the host display (screensaver), can this also lock the VM's passthrough display, or the user will always need to lock both? How well does something like Synergy work across the displays, especially for things like cut-and-paste? _______________________________________________ vfio-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users
