Re: Ways to exit from kvm on behalf of the quest system?

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:48:51PM -0400, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:
> OK, I'll try to summarize that. However I'd also like to make a
> feature request: a virtual character device (sort of a virtual serial
> line) that the guest OS might use to communicate with the QEMU
> monitor. That might solve many problems.

Unless you whitelist which monitor commands it can run this would be a
significant security hole.  eg a guest could run

   'usb_add disk /some/path'

To get access to arbitrary files & disks from the host.

Dan,
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