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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Sagar Borikar <sagar.borikar@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inter VM / PF-VF communication
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:15:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110923181524.GW25596@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFwMWxu5y4kz8oxXtfZoiHbFoVOJXR7axMpovceMe8zCXGAraw@mail.gmail.com>

* Sagar Borikar (sagar.borikar@gmail.com) wrote:
> Sorry if I am not keeping up on the subject but wanted to know whether
> there is any effort going on for inter VM communication / PF-VF
> communication (in case of SR-IOV)
> I see that most of SR-IOV capable NIC supports mailboxes for that
> purpose to avoid the security hole.
> Xen has virtual device implementation for the same. Should I presume
> that such kind of effort is not on the radar and HW needs to own the
> responsibility of filling the loop holes in security threats imposed
> by VF?

We do not support this, and had no plans to.  Most cards have managed to
do this in hw.

thanks,
-chris

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-22 15:23 inter VM / PF-VF communication Sagar Borikar
2011-09-22 21:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-23  1:27   ` Sagar Borikar
2011-09-23 18:15 ` Chris Wright [this message]

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