Re: [Xen-users] Security Violation?

[Frederic Stumpf <stumpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> 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 don't think that this is the issue, since there is a strong isolation 
between the processes running inside the VM and Dom0.
It is a curiose problem I never encountered.

Frederic

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