Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (505 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

on Sonntag, 10. Juli 2011, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
> the vmwgfx driver is becoming ready for testing ; this vmware written
> video driver is targeting virtualised system running on a vmware
> virtualisation tool. With the right Mesa gallium component, it
> enables 3D acceleration on virtualised guest, using host hardware
> (from windows or linux system).
>
> Is it possible to enable the kernel module for VMWGFX to be built ?
> It might help testing gnome-shell (with mutter ux) safely inside a
> vmware box.

Safety is relative ;-) 

If I understand this article from Fefe 
    http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b32cb04e (german)
right, giving a VMware guest access to the host graphics hardware could 
be exploited by executing evil shader code, which would give full write 
access to the RAM :-(

I'm not an expert in this area and don't know if the vmgfx driver is 
affected by this - but it should be checked by someone who understands 
the issue ;-)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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