Collaborate Disseminate
[Radishmouse], despite the handle, is not a mouse guy. Give him a keyboard and he will get around just fine in any OS or program. As it is, he’s got a handful of ThinkPads, each running a different OS. He wanted to be able to switch his nice mechanical keyboard …read more
An essential tool of many sysadmins is a portable terminal ready to plug into an ailing rack-mounted server to administer first aid. At their simplest, they are simply a monitor and keyboard on a trolley, but more often they will be a laptop pre-loaded with tools for the purpose. Sysadmins …read more
Continue reading From A Dead Laptop To A Portable KVM And PiTop
With KVM guest systems so prevalent now, I was wondering if there is any merit in using LUKS encrypted storage, as the guest will usually be always on, so the information is always accessible unencrypted to the guest, and thu… Continue reading Can information somehow be secured from the host on a KVM guest?
Sometimes you have a whole bunch of computers that you need to work with, and having a keyboard, monitor, and mouse for each one becomes too much to deal with. There are a multitude of solutions to this problem, but [Fmstrat] went the hacker route, and built their own.
The build is a rather unique way of controlling PCs remotely, but it does the job. A Raspberry Pi 3 is pressed into service as the core of the operation. It’s accessible over IP for remote control. Video is captured from the controlled machines through the combination of an HDMI-to-S-Video adapter …read more
I need to enable KVM for my android-ci Docker image to work for emulator based instrumentation tests. The Android emulator requires the kvm device.
Therefore I specify the following in the Runner config (/etc/gitlab-runner/c… Continue reading Is it secure to enable KVM Device for Docker Runner in GitLab Continuous Integration?
Back in the old days, when handing someone a DB serial cable when they asked for a DE serial cable would get you killed, KVM switchers were a thing. These devices were simple boxes with a few VGA ports, a few PS/2 ports, and a button or dial that allowed your input (keyboard and mouse) and output (video) to be used with multiple computers. Early KVMs were really just a big ‘ol rotary switch with far, far too many poles. Do you remember that PS/2 wasn’t able to be hot plugged? The designers of these KVMs never knew that. …read more
How secure is the host operating system from the guest virtual machine’s OS when using GPU passthrough (using the methods described here)?
I’m looking for a general answer, but if it’s relevant, assume Linux host with KVM an… Continue reading VFIO/GPU passthrough security
How secure is the host operating system from the guest virtual machine’s OS when using GPU passthrough (using the methods described here)?
If the guest is compromised, can it permanently infect the GPU and its firmware? If i… Continue reading GPU passthrough security
Let’s say that on my personal computer, I host a VM I use to do software development. My personal computer is connected to the internet and running Ubuntu 16.04 and my guest is CentOS 7.
I don’t want to bother with SSH keys … Continue reading What are the security implications of enabling anonymous root/sudo access with sshd on a local guest VM?
I’m worried about the attack surface that the linux kernel networking stack, including nic drivers and packet filtering, offers to a remote attacker. So I’m planning to isolate as much of the networking code (drivers, packet … Continue reading Can USB ethernet passthrough to a KVM virtual machine isolate network-related kernel vulnerabilities?
