On 03/01/2018 10:26 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Hi,
1. Possible security issues - VirtIO devices are PCI bus masters, thus
allowing real device (running, for example, in untrusted driver domain)
to get control over guest's memory by writing to its memory
2. VirtIO currently uses GFNs written i
Hi,
> 1. Possible security issues - VirtIO devices are PCI bus masters, thus
> allowing real device (running, for example, in untrusted driver domain)
> to get control over guest's memory by writing to its memory
>
> 2. VirtIO currently uses GFNs written into the shared ring, without Xen
> grant
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Julien Grall wrote:
> (+ Stefano and Wei)
>
> Hi,
>
> On 02/27/2018 12:40 PM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> > Please find some more clarifications on VirtIO use with Xen
> > (I would like to thank Xen community for helping with this)
> >
> > 1. Possible security issues -
Hi all,
just as a clarification, this patch series implements the frontend
driver for the "vdispl" protocol, which was reviewed, approved and
committed in xen.git back in April:
https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=xen/include/public/io/displif.h
As Xen maintainer, if a competing P
(+ Stefano and Wei)
Hi,
On 02/27/2018 12:40 PM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
Please find some more clarifications on VirtIO use with Xen
(I would like to thank Xen community for helping with this)
1. Possible security issues - VirtIO devices are PCI bus masters, thus
allowing real device (ru
Please find some more clarifications on VirtIO use with Xen
(I would like to thank Xen community for helping with this)
1. Possible security issues - VirtIO devices are PCI bus masters, thus
allowing real device (running, for example, in untrusted driver domain)
to get control over guest's memory
**
*Hi, all!*
*
Last *Friday* some concerns on #dri-devel were raised wrt "yet
another driver" for Xen and why not virtio-gpu. Let me highlight
on why we need a new paravirtualized driver for Xen and why we
can't just use virtio. Hope this helps the communities (both Xen
and DRI) to have be
From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko
Hello!
This patch series adds support for Xen [1] para-virtualized
frontend display driver. It implements the protocol from
include/xen/interface/io/displif.h [2].
Accompanying backend [3] is implemented as a user-space application
and its helper library [4], capabl
