From: Jeff D. <jd...@ka...> - 2000-06-01 12:54:28
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pa...@su... said: > Nice. (I was hoping you did it other way: framebuffer driver in uml > which knows how to do X would be even cooler; the way you done it evil > application could connect to your X server directly and capture your > keystrokes; something what framebuffer driver would not allow). I did it that way to exercise the kernel and to demonstrate that it could run its own local X server. If you were running it as a sandbox, you would put the Xnest outside, running on the host. You'd make sure that it accepted connections from the virtual machine and that your native X server didn't. That way, the only server available to evil proggies running inside the virtual machine is the Xnest, which can be made to go away with a click of the mouse if it starts trying nasty things like creating infinite windows. Jeff |