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Re: [Xen-devel] pre-reservation of memory for domain creation

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, "dongxiao.xu@xxxxxxxxx" <dongxiao.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pre-reservation of memory for domain creation
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:57:00 +0000
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> So you say it's acceptable for a flaw in the tools (exposed during guest
> creation) to bring down the whole machine?

I think I regarded it at the time as a flaw in the hypervisor, not giving a
large enough value to sh_set_allocation(). The tools shouldn't be able to
crash Xen via the normal dom0 interfaces, at least without trying.

 -- Keir



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