Re: [PATCH] AF_VMCHANNEL address family for guest<->host communication.

Herbert Xu
2008-12-16T02:55:52Z

Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>
> If we used TCP, we don't have a useful TCP/IP stack in QEMU, so we'd
> have to inject that traffic into the host Linux instance, and then
> receive the traffic in QEMU. Besides being indirect, it has some nasty
> security implications that I outlined in my response to Jeremy's last note.

When combined with namespaces I don't see why using the kernel TCP
stack would create any security problems that wouldn't otherwise
exist.

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