lomount is a tool which reads and parses a partition table in a disk
image block device and then uses mount -o ...offset=... to mount it.
This is not an ideal approach. For example, if the intended
filesystem has corrupted metadata the kernel's filesystem driver may
start to write outside of the intended region. This might even be
exploitable in some perverse circumstances.
Nowadays people wanting to do this should use kpartx, which uses
devmapper to create appropriate range mappings. So lomount should be
disabled.
miniterm may well be useful but it is a clone-and-hack of an upstream
project and is currently built but not installed by default, partly
because it doesn't make sense to install on the dom0 which it might be
trying to debug.
It is probably useful to retain these two programs in the source tree
but IMO they should no longer be built by default.
The attached patch does these things:
* CONFIG_LOMOUNT and CONFIG_MINITERM in Config.mk
can enable and disable these programs
* They are disabled by default
* If CONFIG_MINITERM=y it is still built but not installed.
make -C tools/misc/miniterm install will install it.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
While wading through the patches made to Xen by OpenSUSE in their
[s]rpm, I found that they have removed various special casing for ifup
on ther distribution.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
In various places in documentation and code, IP addresses are provided
as examples, defaults, or dummy configuration. In general the
specific IP addresses used in Xen are not always appropriate. (For
example, 1.2.3.4 is used in a few places!)
The following addresses should be used:
* For examples and documentation, 192.0.2.0/24. (See RFC3330.)
* For defaults for private networks, a random network from RFC1918.
I have randomly selected 172.30.206.0/24 for this purpose and
documented this in at the only registry I know of,
www.ucam.org/cam-grin. This network should henceforth be used for
default configurations of local bridges, test networks, etc. in
Xen tools.
The following addresses should NOT be used:
* 10.0.*.*, 10.1.*.*, 192.168.0.*, 192.168.1.*, etc. Using these
addresses gives greatly increased likelihood of collision, as
ignorant network administrators and reckless middlebox vendors
often pick networks from the bottom of 10/8 and 192.168/16.
* 169.254.*.*. These are reserved for zeroconf (ad-hoc networking)
and should not be used for Xen private networks, bridges, etc.,
etc. Use of these addresses by Xen scripts causes trouble on hosts
(eg laptops) which find themselves in ad-hoc networking
environments. I think this is not hypothetical (!) since at least
one Linux distribution have specific code to detect this case and
cause Xen startup to fail iff the host already has an external
zeroconf address.
* 1.2.3.4. WTF !?
I have also used 127.0.255.255 in one place where apparently a dummy
address is needed (some Linux kernels won't accept a lack of an NFS
server address). If 127.0.255.255 is mistakenly used it is unlikely
to do any damage to real traffic even if it does escape into the
network at large.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
from special pages (ioreq, xenstore, etc). This will stop some probe
functions (e.g., embedded in memtest) from stomping on the special
pages.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
The attached patch implements a mini BIOS menu for choosing a
non-default
boot device. When a guest starts it'll display
'Press F10 to select boot device'
And wait 3 seconds, before continuing with the normal boot device. If
they press the F10 key, a menu is shown allowing a choice between
floppy, harddisk, cdrom and network (PXE).
I can't take credit for this originally - Jeremy Katz wrote it for
KVM, I merely re-diffed the patch to work against Xen's QEMU/BIOS code
tree. It has been tested in Fedora successfully against 3.1.x and 3.2.x
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
CC: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
If more than one boot device has been selected, the currently selected
number displayed in the menu is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>
The handling of SHLD/SHRD introduced in 16696:b5b3e27f1af3f7 was
incorrect; thanks to Gary Grebus @ Virtual Iron for spotting it.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
DMA request to above guest physical memory will cause VTd fault, in
which print_vtd_entries() tries to walk VTd mapping table. However,
during walking, current Xen code didn't check if the PTE is valid and
may access to invalid memory address.
Signed-off-by: Xiaowei Yang <xiaowei.yang@intel.com>
Keir Fraser
Alex Williamson