Re: [Qemu-devel] Idea: fuse-kvm filesystem

[Alex Bradbury <asb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 May 2012 13:29, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently when you mount a filesystem, you face two issues:
> - you have to be root
> - if the media is untrusted, it can exploit your kernel
>
> With kvm and fuse, we can have a virtualized kernel mount the
> filesystem, and re-export to the host, which mounts it using a fuse
> interface.  This solves both problems, at the expense of speed and
> simplicity.  In theory this can be used for mounting untrusted USB
> sticks (perhaps only for the less well tested filesystems).

Is this not one of the many features of guestfs? At least, I'm not
sure I understand from your description how it's different.

http://libguestfs.org/guestmount.1.html

Alex
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