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From: | Avi Kivity |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network |
Date: | Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:38:22 +0200 |
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On 10/29/2009 02:23 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:16:43AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:I agree we shouldn't exit in this scenariovirtio in qemu generally seems to handle guest errors by calling exit(2). This probably makes it easier to notice the problems, but is likely not the right thing to do.
Right, the thinking was the guest is shooting itself in the foot and hitting, but a guest can delegate control of a device to unprivileged code (for example device assignment in kvm), which would allow this unprivileged code to kill the guest.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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