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Re: [Xen-users] Re: Users can provide their own kernels?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Users can provide their own kernels?
From: Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:47:26 +0000
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:38:06AM -0400, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Will there be options to prevent a domU that booted a dom0 kernel from 
> accessing xend? I'd hate for an abusive user to balloon all the other 
> domUs to 16MB RAM and balloon themselves to 1GB RAM, play with 
> scheduling parameters, or randomly kill off other domUs.

If they tried to run a dom0 inside a dom0 wouldn't they only have
access to whatever devices their domain was already allowed access
to?  SO they'd only be able to further subdivide their own RAM and
disk.. which might be interesting.

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