On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May <b...@snoopy.debian.net> wrote:
> 
> > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more 
> > secure
> > then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU.
> 
> I haven't heard this claim before, do you have any references to support this?

http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/05/xen-security-or-lack-thereof.html links to
http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf.

I don't know for certain this applies to KVM, however I would assume so.

In doing a search for the above I come across a number of security issues in
Xen that are blamed on QEMU.

Also see:

http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/10/28/xen-and-security/
-- 
Brian May <b...@snoopy.debian.net>


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