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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mark nic as trusted
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:54:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4964EC55.4000507@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4964EC2B.1080406@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> That is for secure guest<->host communication over network. Guest has to
>> know somehow which link host uses for communication. If guest has no way
>> to know this, another computer on untrusted network can pretend it is 
>> real
>> host and "own" a guest.   
>
> So this is for vmchannel?  How do you differentiate a real device with 
> that bit set compared to the vmchannel device?

Like if you were doing PCI passthrough of an e1000...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>> -- 
>>             Gleb.
>>
>>
>>   
>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-07 14:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mark nic as trusted Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 15:04 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-07 15:19   ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 15:41     ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-07 16:02       ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 16:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-07 16:50   ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 17:53     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-07 17:54       ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-01-07 18:41         ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-07 19:26           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-07 19:46             ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-08 19:58               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-08 21:26                 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-08 21:42                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-08 22:49                     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-08 23:14                       ` Dor Laor
2009-01-09 10:41                         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-01-10  2:18                           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-10 18:22                             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-11  4:55                               ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-11  7:10                                 ` Blue Swirl
2009-01-11 14:08                                   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-01-11 15:07                                     ` Dor Laor
2009-01-11 15:34                                       ` Blue Swirl
2009-01-11 16:01                                         ` Dor Laor
2009-01-12  2:20                                           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-12  8:05                                             ` Gleb Natapov
2009-01-12 12:26                                               ` Dor Laor
2009-01-10  2:27                         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-08 23:26                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-10  2:31                         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-10 18:24                           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-11  4:40                             ` Jamie Lokier

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