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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel
	<kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>,
	David Windsor <dwindsor-5TQdPaFcblfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Joshua Brindle <jbrindle-5TQdPaFcblfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	selinux <selinux-+05T5uksL2qpZYMLLGbcSA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/01]qemu VM entrypoints
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:21:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A1A5E9.7000807@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A11F1A.2080004-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> James Morris wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> It could be - if your put the policy at the control API layer instead of
>>> in QEMU itself.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Then you can bypass MAC security by invoking qemu directly.
>>   
>>     
>
> You can bypass MAC security by writing your own binary that uses the KVM 
> kernel interfaces.
>
>   

I guess modifying qemu makes sense if the modification gives you *more*
permissions.

i.e. you start out just with the ability to access the disk image, and
then you transition to a new domain that allows you to access some network.


Is that what is intended here?

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-21  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-20 19:32 [RFC][PATCH 00/01]qemu VM entrypoints David Windsor
2007-07-20 19:32 ` David Windsor
     [not found] ` <C2C68600.366D%dwindsor-5TQdPaFcblfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-07-20 20:03   ` Anthony Liguori
2007-07-20 21:55     ` [kvm-devel] " David Windsor
2007-07-20 21:55       ` [Qemu-devel] " David Windsor
2007-07-20 21:55       ` David Windsor
2007-07-20 22:19       ` [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2007-07-20 22:19         ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2007-07-20 20:11   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2007-07-20 20:30     ` [kvm-devel] " James Morris
2007-07-20 20:30       ` James Morris
2007-07-20 20:38       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2007-07-20 20:46       ` Anthony Liguori
2007-07-20 22:42         ` [kvm-devel] " James Morris
2007-07-20 22:42           ` James Morris
2007-07-20 22:53           ` Anthony Liguori
2007-07-20 23:33             ` [kvm-devel] " James Morris
2007-07-20 23:33               ` James Morris
2007-07-21  2:48           ` [kvm-devel] " David Windsor
2007-07-21  2:48             ` David Windsor
2007-07-21  2:51             ` [Qemu-devel] " David Windsor
     [not found]         ` <46A11F1A.2080004-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2007-07-21  6:21           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-07-21  6:53             ` [kvm-devel] " David Windsor
2007-07-21  6:53               ` David Windsor
     [not found]               ` <C2C7258F.36C9%dwindsor-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-07-21 15:54                 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-07-21 17:55                   ` [kvm-devel] " James Morris
2007-07-21 17:55                     ` James Morris
2007-07-21 19:01                     ` [kvm-devel] " Joshua Brindle
2007-07-21 19:01                       ` Joshua Brindle
     [not found]                       ` <6FE441CD9F0C0C479F2D88F959B01588DE1B1E-Lp/cVzEoVybUo1n7N8X6UhN0Am9MfdqnVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-07-22 19:07                         ` Anthony Liguori
2007-07-22 20:22                           ` [kvm-devel] " David Windsor
2007-07-22 20:22                             ` David Windsor
2007-07-22 20:27                             ` [Qemu-devel] [kvm-devel] " David Windsor
2007-07-22 17:39                   ` David Windsor
2007-07-22 17:39                     ` David Windsor
2007-07-20 21:57       ` [kvm-devel] " David Windsor
2007-07-20 21:57         ` [Qemu-devel] " David Windsor
2007-07-20 21:57         ` David Windsor
     [not found]         ` <25a1d91b0707201457m6865a505maf93d22c5c28f0cc-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-07-20 23:50           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2007-07-20 23:50             ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2007-07-21  1:41             ` James Morris
2007-07-21  1:41               ` [Qemu-devel] " James Morris
2007-07-21  1:41               ` James Morris
2007-07-20 20:35 ` [kvm-devel] " James Morris
2007-07-20 20:35   ` James Morris
2007-07-20 21:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " David Windsor

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