'Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..' - MARC
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List: openbsd-misc<br>Subject: Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..<br>From: Theo de Raadt<br>Date: 2007-10-24 1:14:13<br>Message-ID: 200710240114.l9O1EDt3003562 () cvs ! openbsd ! org<br>[Download RAW message or body]
> Virtualization seems to have a lot of security benefits.
You've been smoking something really mind altering, and I think you<br>should share it.
x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full<br>kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which<br>barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating<br>system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit.
You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a<br>worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating<br>systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around<br>and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
You've seen something on the shelf, and it has all sorts of pretty<br>colours, and you've bought it.
That's all x86 virtualization is.
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