On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:38:22PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 02:23 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:16:43AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>>
>>> I agree we shouldn't exit in this scenario
>>>
>> virtio in qemu generally seems to handle guest errors
>> by calling exit(2). This probably makes it easier to notice
>> the problems, but is likely not the right thing to do.
>>
>
> Right, the thinking was the guest is shooting itself in the foot and
> hitting, but a guest can delegate control of a device to unprivileged
> code (for example device assignment in kvm),
When we emulate iommu, yes.
> which would allow this unprivileged code to kill the guest.
With usb emulation, we can have:
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c:343:static const char *usblp_messages[] = {
"ok", "out of paper", "off-line", "on fire" };
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
