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Re: [Xen-users] Security Violation?



On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:55:23AM +0000, paulk wrote:

> I have a dom0 fedora core 5 and domU fedora core 5 running fine, however I've 
> noticed something strange.
> 
> If I ssh -X  into the virtual machine and run firefox it seems to work fine, 
> until I download a file. The downloaded file is saved in dom0 and not within 
> the virtual machine. How is this possible?
> 
> I've double checked that I am ssh'ing into the correctmachine.
> 
> Has anybody else had the same problem?

  Probably what is happening is that you have Firefox running in dom0
 already - so when you run the *new* firefox in domU it doesn't actually
 start a new process and export the display, instead it connects to
 your already-running instance and just creates a new window.

  (I'm not sure how this detection works,but it is easy to test,
 perhaps shared memory of some sort?)

  To be sure before you start the firefox via the SSH double-check you
 have no existing firefox processes presesnt.

Steve
-- 
http://xen-hosting.org/

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