From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Use host's resolv.conf within the guest Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:00:19 +0300 Message-ID: <1316066419.3743.5.camel@lappy> References: <1316017706-12348-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <1316017706-12348-2-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <1316065006.3743.0.camel@lappy> <4E7190B4.1060306@cs.helsinki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:63198 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754156Ab1IOGAv (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:00:51 -0400 Received: by fxe4 with SMTP id 4so305885fxe.19 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:00:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E7190B4.1060306@cs.helsinki.fi> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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 > >> > >> 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.