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Old 29th June 2012
angryfirelord angryfirelord is offline
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I suspect the reason is more along the lines that you're introducing another layer of complexity, which can in turn introduce more security exploits.

Theo posted this regarding Xen:
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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.

You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a
worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating
systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around
and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.

You've seen something on the shelf, and it has all sorts of pretty
colours, and you've bought it.

That's all x86 virtualization is.
I think it's safe to say that OpenBSD won't ever have virtualization support.
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