Re: [Xen-devel] possible packet sniffer between domains?


> 
> This might be a security problem for some people -- currently the
> pages that are returned to Xen could have previously be used for any
> purpose (e.g., they could be pages containg contents of arbitrary
> files, or arbitrary VM pages from any running application).

yowza. Yes, this could be a security issue for some people :-)

The pages Plan 9 returns are going to get zero'ed. It might be a good idea
to have a build option for domU (or even dom0) Linux/freebsd/etc. that
pages returned to Zen always get zero'd. 

ron


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