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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, asias.hejun@gmail.com,
	gorcunov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Use host's resolv.conf within the guest
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:00:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316066419.3743.5.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E7190B4.1060306@cs.helsinki.fi>

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 08:44 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 9/15/11 8:36 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 08:29 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Sasha Levin<levinsasha928@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>> Since kernel IP autoconfiguration doesn't set up /etc/resolv.conf, we'll
> >>> use the one located within the host, since this was anyway what we simulated
> >>> within the DHCP offer packets.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin<levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Wouldn't a symlink to /host/etc/resolv.conf be more appropriate?
> >> Remember, we're supposed to only need to setup the shared rootfs once.
> >
> > It would mean the guest can screw up with the host's networking.
> 
> How? You're not supposed to run the tool.

Hm? If you it to the host's resolv.conf, a guest can edit host's file,
no?

Might even be not on purpose... For example, simply running dhcpcd on
the guest.

-- 

Sasha.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-14 16:28 [PATCH 1/2] kvm tools: Don't copy network autoconfiguration script Sasha Levin
2011-09-14 16:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Use host's resolv.conf within the guest Sasha Levin
2011-09-15  5:29   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-09-15  5:36     ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-15  5:44       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-09-15  6:00         ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2011-09-15  6:04           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-09-15  6:04             ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-15  6:22               ` Pekka Enberg
2011-09-15  7:11                 ` Sasha Levin

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