netdev - Re: [PATCH] AF_VMCHANNEL address family for guest<->host communication.

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Message-Id: <E1LCQ62-0001oT-2b@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
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.

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