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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Daniel Schwager <Daniel.Schwager@dtnet.de>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to secret Dom0  against DomU .
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:20:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <499EF46B.4050008@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090220165016.GJ2125@8bytes.org>

Joerg Roedel schrieb:
> 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.

He may also want to prevent guest from accessing the host via network.

Place the guest in a different VLAN, attach to a different bridge etc.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-20 18:20 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
2009-02-20 18:20   ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2009-02-20 18:25     ` Daniel Schwager

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