Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
by thaumaturgy on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:22PM
(#16066448)
We should quote OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt here, all the way back from 2007:
"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."
"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."
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582&w=2