From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kvm tools: Export DISPLAY ENV as our default host ip address
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:09:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120905080945.GB22644@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOJsxLGCqFnOd2n2q0TNa+h0d020JyL3nFT4LcRRtS=mkSGAfw@mail.gmail.com>
* Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 02:29 PM, Asias He wrote:
> >> It is useful to run a X program in guest and display it on host.
> >>
> >> 1) Make host's x server listen to localhost:6000
> >> host_shell$ socat -d -d TCP-LISTEN:6000,fork,bind=localhost \
> >> UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
> >>
> >> 2) Start the guest and run X program
> >> host_shell$ lkvm run -k /boot/bzImage
> >> guest_shell$ xlogo
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Note, this is insecure, don't do this with untrusted guests.
>
> Asias, can we add a command line argument that enables this?
> It'd be safer to keep it disabled by default.
It might also be prudent to name the option in a way that
signals that the user of it understands the security
implications:
--X11-trusted-guest 1
or so.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-05 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-24 11:29 [PATCH 1/2] kvm tools: Export DISPLAY ENV as our default host ip address Asias He
2012-08-24 11:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Mount devpts to /dev/pts Asias He
2012-09-04 13:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] kvm tools: Export DISPLAY ENV as our default host ip address Avi Kivity
2012-09-05 6:03 ` Asias He
2012-09-05 7:56 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-05 9:19 ` Asias He
2012-09-05 9:29 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-05 9:46 ` Asias He
2012-09-05 9:53 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-05 10:14 ` Asias He
2012-09-05 11:56 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-06 3:32 ` Asias He
2012-09-06 7:59 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-10 1:26 ` Asias He
2012-09-10 8:19 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-05 8:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-09-05 8:09 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-09-05 9:16 ` Asias He
2012-09-05 9:13 ` Asias He
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