From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: "Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>,
"Proxmox VE development discussion" <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server] api: add 'allow-ksm' to memory options
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:22:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5772d1aa-85c6-4d00-b7b7-624b0003a90b@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1763460696.90n4lepto7.astroid@yuna.none>
Am 18.11.25 um 11:12 AM schrieb Fabian Grünbichler:
> On November 18, 2025 11:08 am, Fiona Ebner wrote:
>> Am 18.11.25 um 10:42 AM schrieb Fabian Grünbichler:
>>> else it is treated as root-only parameter, and since the UI will set/clear it
>>> by default, that makes memory-editing in its entirety root-only.
>>
>> Should it be editable by users with "just" VM.Config.Memory? One main
>> use case is security-related to avoid side-channel attacks. If the
>> answer is no, we should fix the UI of course ;)
>
> IMHO, yes. it is the default after all, and its purpose is to protect
> this VM against other co-located guests, not against other admins that
> are allowed to (re-)configure my VM.
Yes, good point :)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-18 9:42 Fabian Grünbichler
2025-11-18 10:08 ` Fiona Ebner
2025-11-18 10:12 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2025-11-18 10:22 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2025-11-18 13:30 ` Thomas Lamprecht
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