Re: Server virtualization and security?

num_gg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


But: My question is from the security and anti-hacking protection
point of view. Someone says that "virtualization allows securisation
and isolation of a network as breaking a virtual system doesn't allow
to take over the whole system (and especially the host system)".
Personnally I wonder how one can be so sure.


Depends very much on the implementation. Virtuozzo and User Mode Linux, for example, offer virtually no security boundaries.
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