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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Idea: fuse-kvm filesystem
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:29:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FABB4C2.3050601@redhat.com> (raw)

Currently when you mount a filesystem, you face two issues:
- you have to be root
- if the media is untrusted, it can exploit your kernel

With kvm and fuse, we can have a virtualized kernel mount the
filesystem, and re-export to the host, which mounts it using a fuse
interface.  This solves both problems, at the expense of speed and
simplicity.  In theory this can be used for mounting untrusted USB
sticks (perhaps only for the less well tested filesystems).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Idea: fuse-kvm filesystem
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:29:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FABB4C2.3050601@redhat.com> (raw)

Currently when you mount a filesystem, you face two issues:
- you have to be root
- if the media is untrusted, it can exploit your kernel

With kvm and fuse, we can have a virtualized kernel mount the
filesystem, and re-export to the host, which mounts it using a fuse
interface.  This solves both problems, at the expense of speed and
simplicity.  In theory this can be used for mounting untrusted USB
sticks (perhaps only for the less well tested filesystems).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-10 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-10 12:29 Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-05-10 12:29 ` [Qemu-devel] Idea: fuse-kvm filesystem Avi Kivity
2012-05-10 12:35 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-05-10 12:35   ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
2012-05-10 12:55   ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-10 12:55     ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2012-05-10 12:37 ` Alex Bradbury
2012-05-10 12:37   ` Alex Bradbury
2012-05-10 12:56   ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-10 12:56     ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-10 14:09 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-05-10 14:09   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka

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