LWN.net Logo

ELCE11: Sandboxing for automotive Linux

ELCE11: Sandboxing for automotive Linux

Posted Nov 4, 2011 19:59 UTC (Fri) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)
In reply to: ELCE11: Sandboxing for automotive Linux by martinfick
Parent article: ELCE11: Sandboxing for automotive Linux

When you start talking about 100 or 1000 guests, the limiting factors to full virtualization quickly become I/O bandwidth, scheduler pressure, RAM, etc. Virtualizing exactly 1 guest is an entirely different problem, especially if the primary goals are security and trying to mix two dissimilar systems. So yeah, I do think that "KVM done right" is far better for isolating a single Android instance than trying to modify both the host and guest to coexist. That's not to say that OS level virtualization doesn't have its uses.


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds