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Old 26th November 2008
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Real Name: Torfinn Ingolfsen
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Originally Posted by J65nko View Post
I think running a virtual machine as a firewall is a bad idea. Programmers already have a hard time writing secure operating systems. You think that in their initial attempt in writing secure virtualization layers they suddenly do better? I don't
Well, you are free to do some research and post any definite findings that indicate the this virtualization product (or any other virtualization product on the Intel PC platform) is less secure than running on a physical server. After all, vmware have been running for a few years now. And the Hypervisor concept and first implementation is now ancient. :-)
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