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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Daniel Schwager <Daniel.Schwager@dtnet.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to secret Dom0  against DomU .
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:50:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090220165016.GJ2125@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EB31672367A401439CD5A4A10889D57B01297453@exchange.dtnet.de>

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:26:22PM +0100, Daniel Schwager wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> are there some known issues using kvm-84 
> 	- to break in into the Dom0
> 	- to corrupt the Dom0
> 	- to ... Dom0
> 
> Are there some thinks I have to configure in Dom0
> to safe Dom0 against DomU's ?

This is absolutly no risk in KVM just because there is no Dom0. I guess
you mean if there is any way to break out of a guest and hack the host.
As far as I know there are no known security issue.

> 
> My kvm-call looks like this:
> 
> 30743 ?        Sl    85:36 /usr/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M pc -m
> 500 -smp 1 -name solidcam -uuid 85e73643-0f27-b995-8ecb-9042ea044dc5
> -monitor pty -pidfile /var/run/libvirt/qemu//solidcam.pid -boot c -drive
> file=/srv/winxp127.dsk,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -net
> nic,macaddr=ae:de:49:00:40:0e,vlan=0,model=e1000 -net
> tap,ifname=vif100,script=/opt/virtcontroller/bin/qemu-ifup,vlan=0
> -serial pty -parallel none -usb -usbdevice tablet -vnc 0.0.0.0:0
> 
> I want to publish windows XP DomU's to (technical affine) people's - I
> do not want
> that they can hurt/hack our base-system.
> 
> regards
> Danny
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-20 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-20 16:26 How to secret Dom0 against DomU Daniel Schwager
2009-02-20 16:50 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2009-02-20 18:20   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-20 18:25     ` Daniel Schwager

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