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

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Thu Sep 15 12:42:12 UTC 2005


On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Ian Norton-Badrul murmured woefully:
> I'm looking into doing this with some hardware secuiry modules (we make
> them here)

I hope that direct access to a SCSI device 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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