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Old 02-13-2008, 12:08 PM
Sebastian G.
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Default Re: Server virtualization and security?

num_gg@laposte.net 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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