Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Security house-cleaning

[Sander Nagtegaal]

*nothing to do with security*
On thing wich would also be a good thing to add ( I'm not sure QEMU has it ) , 
is drag and drop from the guest OS to the emulator. If anyone of you are 
familiair with virtual PC then you'll know what I'll mean.

Op donderdag 17 juni 2004 6:37 pm, schreef Tim:
> > One of the main pros of Qemu (among the others) it that it has been
> > designed NOT to run SUID.
> > The only piece of code that need root access is tuntap networking.
> > This problem can be circunvented by:
> > - using sudo for tuntap
> > - using user net (a.k.a slirp)
> > - using vde.
>
> Other future considerations:
> - PCI Proxy support (if it is ever offically supported)
>     How will the host OS allow access by QEMU guest in this case?
> - Other bus (USB, firewire, etc) direct access to real hardware
>
>
> Not trying to be alarmist.  Just being conservative with code
> quality/security.
>
> tim
>
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