From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agbHE-0001xb-QM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:00:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agbHB-0006Pr-0S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:00:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agbHA-0006Pm-RI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:59:56 -0400 Message-ID: <1458233994.26199.33.camel@redhat.com> From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:59:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <56EAB106.9020905@redhat.com> References: <20160316181541.GG12454@HEDWIG.INI.CMU.EDU> <56E9A75D.60603@redhat.com> <1458204143.26199.8.camel@redhat.com> <56EA7C2C.6070905@redhat.com> <1458210166.26199.26.camel@redhat.com> <56EAB106.9020905@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vl.c: disallow command line fw cfg without opt/ List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Laszlo Ersek Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, "Gabriel L. Somlo" , mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com Hi, > So, "user defined files" exist so that users can control "stuff" with > them, without QEMU's knowledge. OVMF is "stuff". Just because it's > firmware, it remains "stuff". Whatever Gabriel wants to control with > such fw_cfg files in the guest, is also "stuff". Well, non-firmware stuff was my interpretation, i.e. user-specific stuff in both guest and host. cheers, Gerd