Re: [PLUG] new virtualbox exploit - virtualizers

[Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 3:35 PM jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/8/18 3:19 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
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> > in VMs is VMware which you typically wouldn't run on a linux host.
>
> aside from the above, why?
>

I suspect Lee or somebody with a lot more VMware experience will weigh
in with more, but VMware has used its own hypervisor host for quite a
while now.  A hypervisor doesn't necessarily need all the
functionality of the Linux kernel, since all it does is run VM guests.
Presumably it has a smaller security footprint, and probably lower RAM
overhead/etc.

Typically you'd ran VMware on the bare metal, and then lots of guests
on top of it, and then the whole thing would be backed with some kind
of high-availability storage solution so that guests can be run on
arbitrary hosts, and so on.  Again, I'm not a virtualization expert.

You could obviously run Linux inside the guests, or any other PC-based
OS.  I'm talking about the host here.

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Rich
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