Re: [Xen-devel] protecting xen startup

[Mark Williamson <maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i notice that there's a management interface on port 8000.
There are currently two HTTP-based management interfaces.  Once of them is 
the Xensv web interface, the other is the Xend HTTP-based API, which is 
used by both the command line xm tool and Xensv to issue commands to Xend.
> i seek to protect this interface such that nothing but a trusted program
> (think selinux) may run, manage, start up or shut down xen oses.
Currently, anyone who can access Xend's port can issue management 
commands.  Xend can optionally be configured to only accept connections 
from localhost, in which case only local users will be able to issue 
commands to it.
> is the port 8000 stuff just providing a web server (/etc/init.d/xend)
> front-end to some extra system calls?
Not exactly.  At the Linux Level, there aren't any extra Xen system calls. 
Most commands are issued to Xen by performing ioctls on the 
/proc/xen/privcmd file.  The commands which are issued through this file 
are largely transparent to XenLinux however, having meaning only when they 
are parsed by Xen.
> is the port 8000 stuff actually running in the xen boot-up stuff?
Xend starts its HTTP interface when it starts up and will do anything the 
HTTP interface tells it to do.  If Xend isn't running then the HTTP 
interface is not accessible (but you can't do a lot without Xend).
HTH,
Mark



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