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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Alexandre Bique <bique.alexandre@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] ATAPI pass through v2
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:44:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907072344.33893.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d3bb3090907071421i506a2f0bh5aca170c35a26f62@mail.gmail.com>

> > I expect that running qemu as root counts as a 'bad idea' (I gather
> > that commands are filtered when running as a regular user), but even so,
> > I wonder if guests should be prevented from performing firmware updates?
>
> Yeps.

I disagree.  Upgrading the firmware from within the guest sounds like a 
legitimate use,  especially given the proliferation of proprietary windows-
only upgrade utilities.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-01 18:31 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] ATAPI pass through v2 Bique Alexandre
2009-07-07 20:03 ` Stuart Brady
2009-07-07 21:21   ` Alexandre Bique
2009-07-07 22:44     ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-07-07 22:50       ` Alexandre Bique
2009-07-07 23:01         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-07 23:15           ` Stuart Brady
2009-07-08 16:09           ` Ian Jackson
2009-07-08 16:38             ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 17:28               ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-07-08 18:03                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 18:09                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 17:20             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 17:48               ` Vincent Hanquez
2009-07-08 18:06                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-07 22:58   ` Anthony Liguori

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