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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH 00/01]qemu VM entrypoints
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Windsor <dwindsor@tresys.com>, kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, selinux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>, Joshua Brindle <jbrindle@tresys.com>

On 7/20/07, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>
> > It could be - if your put the policy at the control API layer instead of
> > in QEMU itself.
>
I think that libvirt may be a bit too high in the virtualization stack
for this control.
What benefits are there for placing such a hook in libvirt vs qemu?
libvirt could still use the vm:entrypoint permission for other types
of VMs it manages.

> Then you can bypass MAC security by invoking qemu directly.
>
>
> - James
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