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From: "Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
To: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@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 11:12:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1763460696.90n4lepto7.astroid@yuna.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd91a5c3-9e6a-4461-8325-d49006423e88@proxmox.com>

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.


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  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-18 10:13 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2025-11-18 10:22     ` Fiona Ebner
2025-11-18 13:30 ` Thomas Lamprecht

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