[CentOS] ESXi, KVM or Xen?

Sat Jul 3 15:04:03 UTC 2010
Samuel Paragreen <samuelparagreen at gmail.com>

Hi,

I'm running CentOS 5.5 under Xen, it works excellent, no problems.

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Regards,
Samuel Paragreen.

On 7/3/10, David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizon.net> wrote:
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> On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 11:52 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
>> 2. Security
>> Some sites point out that KVM VM runs in userspace as threads. So a
>> compromised guest OS would then give intruder access to the system as
>> well as other VMs.
>>
>> Should I really be concerned or are these worries only for extreme
>> situations and that KVM is viable for normal production situations?
>> Are there other things I should be aware of?
>>
> As I understand it each VM under kvm has a different SELinux context.
> Breaking into one VM doesn't give you the context to manipulate another.
> One would have to go back out through the network to attack the next
> VM...and if you have decent logging and IDS the noise should be
> seen/detected.
>
> I went with kvm specifically because it is integrated into SELinux.
>
> Dave M
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Regards,
Samuel Paragreen.