Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Use host's resolv.conf within the guest

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On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 09:22 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 9/15/11 9:04 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 09:04 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Sasha Levin<levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >>> Hm? If you it to the host's resolv.conf, a guest can edit host's file,
> >>> no?
> >>>
> >>> Might even be not on purpose... For example, simply running dhcpcd on
> >>> the guest.
> >>
> >> How is that going to happen if you're not running kvmtool as root?
> >
> > In that case, dhcpcd in the guest will simply break because it can't
> > modify resolv.conf, no?
> 
> Yes. Why is that a problem? You're not supposed to launch a dhcp client
> when using shared rootfs because kvmtool takes care of that for you.

Why? Testing a brand new dhcp client for example :)

We can't block the user from editing guest configuration files...

-- 

Sasha.

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