[Lguest] Lguest modification.

Eric Van Hensbergen ericvh at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 06:04:57 EST 2007


On 10/25/07, Sujit Sanjeev <sujit771 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply. The 9P solution looks cool, but my requirement
> is that the guest should not see these variables
> values itself. Sorry for not being clear.
>
> My requirement is that the guest issues a request to the host and the host
> uses these variables and does some manipulation
> to satisfy the guests's request. Basically, since the guest cannot see these
> variables, it should "ask" the host to perform actions
> on its behalf since the host can only see those "special" variables.With 9P,
> though the in-kernel server will have those values, the guest could still
> see their values by say Cat'ing the file.
>

That would be your choice as part of the semantics of the file system
- you can easily choose what to share and what not to share, as well
as which actions the partition is able to perform (or what those
actions mean).

          -eric



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