Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] ATAPI CDROM passthrough v5

[Alexander Graf]

Am 19.10.2010 um 02:10 schrieb Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>:

> On 10/18/2010 06:29 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> A user will get a really nasty surprise if they think they can use a flag 
>>> or rely on QEMU to prevent a VM from doing something nasty with a device.  
>>> If they have this feeling of security, they're likely to chmod the device 
>>> to allow unprivileged users to access it.
>>> 
>>> But how a device handles ATAPI commands is totally up to the device.  If 
>>> you issue the wrong sequence, I'm sure there are devices out there that 
>>> totally hose themselves.  Are you absolutely confident that every ATAPI 
>>> device out there is completely safe against hostile code provided that you 
>>> simply prevent the FW update commands?  I'm certainly not.
>>>     
>> Ping?
>>   
> 
> Who are you pinging?

Mostly Ian. I haven't seen any follow-up on this discussion and would like to 
know why and if there's still plans to upstream this code :).

Alex

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