[Xen-devel] Soft off from Dom0 - Safe?

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Subject:	[Xen-devel] Soft off from Dom0 - Safe?
From:	Vikranth Gaddam <vikranth958@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:20:20 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

I am newbie to Xen and I would be glad if some one sheds some light on this

As DOM0 can have direct access to the hardware, it can do a soft off by writing to the power management registers without letting the hypervisor knowing this.

I think this is unsafe. Also consider the case of dom0 issuing a suspend.

Please correct me if my understanding was wrong.

Thanks,

Vikranth

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[Xen-devel] Soft off from Dom0 - Safe?