On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:45:49PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote:
> 2008/12/30 Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de>:
> > Virtualization promises isolation, and doesn't even remotely keep
> > that promise, today, regardless of the implementation.
> >
> > That makes it, for now, both a security and relibility disaster.
>
> Does that also hold for VM and similar implemenations (e.g. Solaris
> partitions)? VM has been used for decades in environments where
> security and relibility are first objectives...
The big difference is that the hardware VM runs on was designed with
virtualization in mind from the start, instead of some glued on
solution later on.
-Otto
>
> > Virtualization has potential, I hope it gets usable in a few years.
>
> Ask you friendly IBM dealer. :-)
>
> Best
> Martin
