Bug 1305942

Summary: allow block device and offset to be passed to nvram attribute
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Martin Polednik <mpoledni>
Component: qemu-kvm-rhevAssignee: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 7.3CC: jdenemar, knoel, lersek, libvirt-maint, rbalakri, virt-bugs, virt-maint
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Clone Of: 1305922 Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-02-25 10:50:06 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1305915, 1305922    

Comment 3 Stefan Hajnoczi 2016-02-25 10:50:06 UTC
See bz#1305922 for the discussion about why adding a offset into the block device defeats isolation between guests and would be a security problem.  Therefore, no QEMU changes are necessary.