On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Virtualization seems to have a lot of security benefits. > > You've been smoking something really mind altering, and I think you > should share it. > > x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full > kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which > barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating > system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit. > > You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a > worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating > systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around > and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
cf. http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf
