* Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> [2008-12-30 14:06]: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:45:49PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: > > > 2008/12/30 Henning Brauer <[email protected]>: > > > Virtualization promises isolation, and doesn't even remotely keep > > > that promise, today, regardless of the implementation. > > > > > > That makes it, for now, both a security and relibility disaster. > > > > Does that also hold for VM and similar implemenations (e.g. Solaris > > partitions)? VM has been used for decades in environments where > > security and relibility are first objectives... > > The big difference is that the hardware VM runs on was designed with > virtualization in mind from the start, instead of some glued on > solution later on.
and the story with getting the sun domain on the Exxxx into a mode where the entire chassis has to be power cycled after a sun engineer logged in and did magic tells us it isn't all that well either. sadly. -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
