[Gllug] Letting Bohcs, UML or vmware have direct access to a PCI card or a SCSI device (not disk).

Russell Howe rhowe at siksai.co.uk
Fri Sep 16 00:04:17 UTC 2005


On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:58:26PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, nix at esperi.org.uk prattled cheerily:
> 
> (and missed a bit)
> 
> > I hope that direct access to a SCSI device
> 
> from a non-privileged process

Hm.. if it's a virtual machine, surely by definition it's
non-privileged, as you shouldn't be able to break out of it (which is
what allowing arbitrary SCSI commands would do, right?)

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