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Qubes beta 1 released

Posted Apr 13, 2011 23:39 UTC (Wed) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636)
In reply to: Qubes beta 1 released by zlynx
Parent article: Qubes beta 1 released

QEMU is just a userspace process. It doesn't short cut any of the Linux protection mechanisms.

That's the nice thing about QEMU/KVM, it's not reinventing a new security architecture. It just leverages what Linux already does.


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Qubes beta 1 released

Posted Apr 13, 2011 23:50 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

that's true until you start implementing special hooks to improve performance by punching through the abstraction layers.

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