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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Michael Roth" <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add a blog post documenting Spectre/Meltdown options for QEMU 2.11.1
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:33:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2c5404e-7f1e-09c8-329f-1abb585070df@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180214085148.GD13644@redhat.com>

On 14/02/2018 09:51, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> +Please note that, as mentioned in the previous blog post, QEMU/KVM generally
>> +has the same requirements as other unpriviledged processes running on the
>> +host WRT Spectre/Meltdown mitigation.
>
> Is this actually still considered accurate wrt the host QEMU ? I was under
> the believe that life is more complicated for QEMU/KVM wrt Spectre and that
> it will require more protection than other unpriv processes on the host in
> some cases.

The plan is for KVM to ensure that QEMU can be treated as yet another
unprivileged process.  Anything else would require applying the same
care to all of QEMU's dependencies.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-14 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-14  0:11 [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add a blog post documenting Spectre/Meltdown options for QEMU 2.11.1 Michael Roth
2018-02-14  4:39 ` Bruce Rogers
2018-02-14  8:51 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-02-14 10:33   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-02-14 14:56     ` Michael Roth
2018-02-14  9:05 ` Thomas Huth
2018-02-14  9:18   ` Cornelia Huck
2018-02-14  9:11 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-02-14  9:18   ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-02-14  9:48     ` David Hildenbrand
2018-02-14 16:50 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-02-14 18:18   ` Michael Roth
2018-02-16 11:57     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-02-21 10:09       ` Paolo Bonzini

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