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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
	Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Secure KVM
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:29:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320647343.3202.3.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h3cu75a.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 10:37 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:40:20 +0200, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The solution is also simple to explain: Split the devices into different
> > processes and use seccomp to sandbox each device into the exact set of
> > resources it needs to operate, nothing more and nothing less.
> 
> lguest does a process per device.  Actually, it uses clone for legacy
> reasons, but I have a patch which changes it to processes.
> 
> It works well, and it's *simple*.  I suggest looking at
> Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c.
> 
> Good luck!
> Rusty.

Yup, thats pretty much what I want to have.

As you said, clone() isn't really an option - sharing things like the VM
and handles is something which I want to avoid. How does your patch
handle IPC?

-- 

Sasha.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-07  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-06 20:40 Secure KVM Sasha Levin
2011-11-07  0:07 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-07  6:29   ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2011-11-07  6:37     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-07  6:46       ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-07  7:03         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-07 22:49     ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-07  9:26 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 10:17   ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-07 10:27     ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 11:27     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-11-07 12:40       ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-07 12:51         ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 14:56           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-11-07 17:43       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 18:41         ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 17:39   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 18:43     ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 19:07       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 19:54         ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 22:56   ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-07 17:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 17:37   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 17:52   ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-07 17:52     ` [Qemu-devel] " Sasha Levin
2011-11-07 18:03     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 18:03       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 23:06       ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-07 23:06         ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-08 19:51       ` Will Drewry
2011-11-08 19:51         ` [Qemu-devel] " Will Drewry

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