Re: Is pci-pasthrough enabled for F9 DomU?

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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:55:04PM -0700, snowcrash+xen@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ouch!  a large %age of the boxes we deploy have a firewall/DomU & and
> a NAS/Domu, each with dedicated, pass'd-thru NICs.  without passthru,
> performance is lousy.

You're aware that PCI passthrough is insecure?  Someone who gets root
access to a guest can reprogram the NICs (trivially) to read or write
any area of memory in any guest or the dom0.  This might be pertinent
information if you were expecting your firewall to provide isolation.

Rich.

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