[vbox-dev] Compile failure with latest svn-OSE on linux

2010-12-10 Thread walt
Hi vbox team, The latest svn builds on my x86 with xorg-server 1.7.7, but not on my amd64 with xorg-server 1.9.2.902. The build fails in vboxvideo additions when checkUndefined.sh complains that undefined_68 should include memcpy and memset, but doesn't. AFAICT, checkUndefined.sh never runs on

Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox DMA Security?

2010-12-10 Thread Sander van Leeuwen
Without reading the article: - virtual devices can't write to hypervisor memory as there is no guest physical backing for those pages (software virt. only; there is no hypervisor mapping for VT-x/AMD-V) - if they mean host device passthru: we don't support that On 12/10/2010 12:54 PM, Josh x

[vbox-dev] VirtualBox DMA Security?

2010-12-10 Thread Josh x90
Hello all, I have an interest in virtualisation security and I've been reading into the potential DMA access security issues in virtualisation. According to one presentation: (http://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/conferences/systor2010/present/2_2_3_presentation.pdf) "- Untrusted guest programs a