Bug 1305942 - allow block device and offset to be passed to nvram attribute
Summary: allow block device and offset to be passed to nvram attribute
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm-rhev
Version: 7.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Stefan Hajnoczi
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks: 1305915 1305922
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Reported: 2016-02-09 16:20 UTC by Martin Polednik
Modified: 2016-02-26 12:22 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Clone Of: 1305922
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Last Closed: 2016-02-25 10:50:06 UTC
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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.
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