Updates in container isolation
Updates in container isolation
Posted May 17, 2018 2:23 UTC (Thu) by thinxer (guest, #121772)In reply to: Updates in container isolation by anarcat
Parent article: Updates in container isolation
Posted May 17, 2018 14:00 UTC (Thu)
by anarcat (subscriber, #66354)
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Still, the way Xen is designed just feels a little backwards to me as the first layer is not actually the hypervisor itself, but a (compatible) kernel that talks with the hypervisor. And yes, that *does* provide an *extra* layer of security at the cost of performance. But Xen's design also means you need a privileged supervisor domain (the dom0 in the case of Xen) is also part of the attack domain now, and I seem to recall that being used as an attack vector in the past, but I could be mistaken there. I think this is where my analogy came from, but I must admit I cannot substantiate this any further and I am forced to recognize that the attack surfaces are comparable with other hypervisor like gVisor, at least conceptually.
Updates in container isolation