On 06/10/2016 02:10, Joey Connelly wrote: > Hey QEMU dev group, > I'm a graduate student at Boise State University working on my thesis > involving Virtualization/Cloud Computing Security and I wanted to ask a few > questions: > > *[QUESTION#1.]* From within a guest KVM/QEMU process (qemu-system-x86_64 > -enable-kvm) can the VM invoke commands on its host - either through QEMU > Monitor Console commands, or by some other means I'm unaware of? > > *[QUESTION#**2.]* Can a host administrator running a guest KVM/QEMU process > have QEMU Monitor Console commands invoked on that guest VM if *no* > "-monitor" option was used? > > *[QUESTION#**3.]* If a host admin creates a KVM/QEMU process with the > "qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -netdev tap,<...>" options is there a > KVM/QEMU specific way to query the "tap,<...>" information later after the > process has been created? (assuming your admin account maintains ring 0 > permissions)
No to all three. Paolo
