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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mark nic as trusted


From: Anthony Liguori
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mark nic as trusted
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:54:29 -0600
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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

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            Gleb.








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