[libvirt] security: the qemu agent command "guest-exec" may cause Insider Access

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Fri Aug 25 10:41:53 UTC 2017


On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:29:03AM +0000, Zhangbo (Oscar) wrote:
>>
>>Host can read all of the guest's memory or mount the image and modify
>>the guest agent.  Or even add their own communication program that can
>>do anything.
>>
>
>I get your point now! :)  Thanks a lot!!
>
>Further more,  kvm seems not as secure as xen, because xen isolates dom0 and domU well,
>The administrator on dom0 couldn't access many things belonged to domUs.
>How to solve such problem in kvm? Any scheme?

I don't know xen much, but maybe AMD SEV or everything-signed-by TPM
would help...
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