Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/4] Inter-guest virtio I/O example with lguest

Anthony Liguori
2008-03-20T15:52:27Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> I disagree. A driver domain is shared between multiple guests, and if
> one of the guests manages to break into qemu then it can see other
> guest's data.

You still don't strictly need to do things in the kernel if this is your
concern. You can have another process map both guest's address spaces
and do the copying on behalf of each guest if you're paranoid about
escaping into QEMU.

> [Driver domains are a horrible idea IMO, but that's another story]

I don't disagree :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori