[aklug] Re: Converting to Virtualbox

I think I'm missing it....are you promoting Virtual Box, Vmware, or =20
neither or both?

I think you said that VirtualBox has some hardening issues, and that =20
the recent vmware upgrade killed your VMware install, but I'm not sure =20
where that left you.

Mike B.

Quoting "Thomison, Lee" <ThomisonL@muni.org>:

> Usual disclaimer: I Am Not An Expert, although I play one in Real Life <tm=
>=3D
> .
>
> I found that virtualbox doesn't work or play well with any sort of hardeni=
n=3D
> g, and that monitors such as PaX or grsec cause virtualbox to abend. (Asi=
d=3D
> e: there are selinux profiles for it).
>
> Cursory examinations of the logs indicates that the developers were playin=
g=3D
> fast and loose with their programming practices, doing the sorts of quest=
i=3D
> onable things that pax and grsec were designed to catch and prevent. Coul=
d=3D
> probably write exceptions around it, but why should you have to?
>
> VMware may have the same types of issues, but last upgrade (a while back) =
b=3D
> roke my 64bit compatibility, and I haven't had any need to fix it.
>
> YMMV of course.
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Received on Mon Aug 18 15:34:50 2008