From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: "Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
"Wei Liu" <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] xl: dm_restrict: Document that it does not work with PV
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:04:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1507809881-11991-2-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1507809881-11991-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reported-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
---
docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in
index 9b27233..b7b91d8 100644
--- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in
+++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ connectors=id0:1920x1080;id1:800x600;id2:640x480
=item B<dm_restrict=BOOLEAN>
-Restrict the HVM device model after startup,
+Restrict the device model after startup,
to limit the consequencese of security vulnerabilities in qemu.
With this feature enabled,
@@ -1285,6 +1285,11 @@ There are some significant limitations:
=item
+This is not likely to work at all for PV guests
+nor guests using qdisk backends for their block devices.
+
+=item
+
You must have a new enough qemu.
In particular,
if your qemu does not have the commit
--
2.1.4
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2017-10-12 12:04 [PATCH v2 1/2] libxl: dm_restrict: Move to domain_build_info Ian Jackson
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