From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] QEMU support for virtio balloon driver Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:47:28 +0200 Message-ID: <479B8040.1000901@qumranet.com> References: <1201209786831-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4799115F.8010506@us.ibm.com> <20080125160857.GA17437@dmt> <479A162C.1060209@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Andrea Arcangeli To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: In-Reply-To: <479A162C.1060209-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Anthony Liguori wrote: > Do others expect KVM to just cope with the virtual mapping being changed > out from underneath of it? > kvm should cope with both malicious guests and malicious (or buggy) host userspace. It's difficuly to analyze, but mmu notifiers might be necessary for the latter. -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/