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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mark nic as trusted
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:40:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090111044045.GA15975@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4968E7E7.10209@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >It would stop the OS from loading a NIC driver for it.
> >
> >Then later, then vmchannel-using guest app would force the OS to load
> >a NIC driver for the alternative PCI ID.  E.g. by loading a module on
> >Linux with an alternative name and some module arguments.  It's
> >probably not feasible without changes to OSes.
> >  
> 
> It isn't.  Drivers don't work that way.

A few Linux drivers have done it, maybe not any more, that's why I
thought of it.

-- Jamie

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-11  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-07 14:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mark nic as trusted Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 15:04 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-07 15:19   ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 15:41     ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-07 16:02       ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 16:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-07 16:50   ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 17:53     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-07 17:54       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-07 18:41         ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 19:26           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-07 19:46             ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-08 19:58               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-08 21:26                 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-08 21:42                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-08 22:49                     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-08 23:14                       ` Dor Laor
2009-01-09 10:41                         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-01-10  2:18                           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-10 18:22                             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-11  4:55                               ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-11  7:10                                 ` Blue Swirl
2009-01-11 14:08                                   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-01-11 15:07                                     ` Dor Laor
2009-01-11 15:34                                       ` Blue Swirl
2009-01-11 16:01                                         ` Dor Laor
2009-01-12  2:20                                           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-12  8:05                                             ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-12 12:26                                               ` Dor Laor
2009-01-10  2:27                         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-08 23:26                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-10  2:31                         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-10 18:24                           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-11  4:40                             ` Jamie Lokier [this message]

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