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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:55:42 +1100 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: anthony@...emonkey.ws (Anthony Liguori) Cc: davem@...emloft.net, gleb@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] AF_VMCHANNEL address family for guest<->host communication. Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws> wrote: > > If we used TCP, we don't have a useful TCP/IP stack in QEMU, so we'd > have to inject that traffic into the host Linux instance, and then > receive the traffic in QEMU. Besides being indirect, it has some nasty > security implications that I outlined in my response to Jeremy's last note. When combined with namespaces I don't see why using the kernel TCP stack would create any security problems that wouldn't otherwise exist. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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