Re: inter VM / PF-VF communication

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



* Sagar Borikar (sagar.borikar@xxxxxxxxx) 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
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux