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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Joey Connelly <joeyconnelly@u.boisestate.edu>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU - Security Research Questions
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 09:15:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <07793b5d-2702-224f-fc9e-7b8328d0d3c1@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOgv842jzM0LPuqkdBzR=BhPk==Hm+d4Xep++UN4oHfWmJksGA@mail.gmail.com>



On 06/10/2016 02:10, Joey Connelly wrote:
> Hey QEMU dev group,
> I'm a graduate student at Boise State University working on my thesis
> involving Virtualization/Cloud Computing Security and I wanted to ask a few
> questions:
> 
> *[QUESTION#1.]* From within a guest KVM/QEMU process (qemu-system-x86_64
> -enable-kvm) can the VM invoke commands on its host - either through QEMU
> Monitor Console commands, or by some other means I'm unaware of?
> 
> *[QUESTION#**2.]* Can a host administrator running a guest KVM/QEMU process
> have QEMU Monitor Console commands invoked on that guest VM if *no*
> "-monitor" option was used?
> 
> *[QUESTION#**3.]* If a host admin creates a KVM/QEMU process with the
> "qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -netdev tap,<...>" options is there a
> KVM/QEMU specific way to query the "tap,<...>" information later after the
> process has been created? (assuming your admin account maintains ring 0
> permissions)

No to all three.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-06  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-06  0:10 [Qemu-devel] QEMU - Security Research Questions Joey Connelly
2016-10-06  7:15 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-10-06  8:27   ` Markus Armbruster
2016-10-06 16:07     ` Eric Blake
2016-10-07  8:57     ` Kevin Wolf

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