On 01/03/16 19:08, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bob Liu writes ("Re: [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to > pass-through SCSI commands"): >> One thing I'm still not sure about PVSCSI is do we have the same security >> issue since LIO can interface to any block device. >> E.g when using a partition /dev/sda1 as the PVSCSI-backend, but the >> PVSCSI-frontend may still send SCSI operates on LUN bases (the whole disk). > > I don't think you can use pvscsi to passthrough a partition such as > /dev/sda1. Such a thing is not a SCSI command target.
It might be possible via the fileio target backend. In this case LUN based SCSI operations are ignored/refused/emulated by LIO. Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel