Hi, comments inline,
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Aline Bousquet <aline.bousq...@ensi-bourges.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions on the successive states a VM goes through in its > life-cycle. > > I noticed that whenever I suspend a VM, it goes in save state then in > suspended state. Can you describe a little bit what happens to the VM when > it is in these modes? What are the differences between them? When in SAVE, the VMs memory is being dumped into a file for later resume. When SUSPENDED, the VM is paused, no activity is being carried out by it and OpenNebula is doing nothing with the VM until it is resumed. > > I'm wondering if there are some security concerns when a VM is being > suspended while another one (attacking) VM is booting? Could there be a > possibility for the attacking VM to access the others ones resources? This depends on the infrastructure configuration, like for instance the use of ebtables. In short, is not a question with a trivial answer. > > Thanks for your help, > > Aline > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > Regards, -Tino -- Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
