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From: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Device sandboxing
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Ashley D Lai <adlai@us.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>, Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= <radimkrcmar@hpx.cz>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Richa Marwaha <rmarwah@us.ibm.com>, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, Eduardo Terrell Ferrari Otubo <eotubo@br.ibm.com>, Lee Terrell <lterrell@us.ibm.com>, George Wilson <gcwilson@us.ibm.com>

On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 12:48:16 PM Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 12/07/2011 12:25 PM, Corey Bryant wrote:
> > A group of us are starting to work on sandboxing QEMU device emulation
> > code. We're just getting started investigating various approaches, and
> > want to engage the community to gather input.
> 
> > Following are the design points that we are currently considering:
>
> To be perfectly honest, I think prototyping and measuring performance is
> going to be the only way to figure out the right approach here.

Agreed.  I'm currently working on a prototype to play around with some of the 
ideas discussed in this thread.  As soon as it is functional I'll send a 
pointer/patches/etc. to the list.

-- 
paul moore
virtualization @ redhat