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

[Nix]

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

>                                            isn't possible, because given
> that it's quite easy to access *any* SCSI device on the bus, and also to
> completely violate system security (think `command a DMA into kernel
> memory').

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