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Upstream qemu has raised a concern about whether dumping guest memory by reading guest paging tables is a security hole: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-09/msg02607.html While auditing libvirt to see if we would be impacted, I noticed that we had some dead code. It is simpler to nuke the dead code and limit our monitor code to just the subset we make use of. * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h (QEMU_MONITOR_DUMP): Drop poorly named and mostly-unused enum. * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c (qemuMonitorDumpToFd): Drop arguments. * src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h (qemuMonitorJSONDump): Likewise. * src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c (qemuMonitorJSONDump): Likewise. * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDumpToFd): Update caller.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>