From: Tim <tim-qemu@sentinelchicken.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Security house-cleaning
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:37:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040617163740.GB20148@sentinelchicken.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040617151418.GD27872@cs.unibo.it>
> One of the main pros of Qemu (among the others) it that it has been
> designed NOT to run SUID.
> The only piece of code that need root access is tuntap networking.
> This problem can be circunvented by:
> - using sudo for tuntap
> - using user net (a.k.a slirp)
> - using vde.
Other future considerations:
- PCI Proxy support (if it is ever offically supported)
How will the host OS allow access by QEMU guest in this case?
- Other bus (USB, firewire, etc) direct access to real hardware
Not trying to be alarmist. Just being conservative with code
quality/security.
tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-17 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 4:38 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Security house-cleaning Tim
2004-06-17 15:07 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-06-17 15:14 ` Renzo Davoli
2004-06-17 15:24 ` Panagiotis Issaris
2004-06-17 15:27 ` Sebastien Bechet
2004-06-17 16:37 ` Tim [this message]
2004-06-17 17:03 ` Sander Nagtegaal
2004-06-17 17:16 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-06-17 19:59 ` Renzo Davoli
2004-06-17 16:05 ` Tim
2004-06-17 17:41 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-06-18 4:13 ` Tim
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