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BSD Jails, a Better Virtual Server?

Posted by michael on from the lockdown dept.

gManZboy writes "Poul-Henning Kamp, a FreeBSD committer, has an article up about BSD Jails as part of Queue's special report on virtual machines. He describes BSD's interesting 'semi-permeable' approach to VMs, and the importance of security in VM architectures. The article is co-written by Robert Watson, a DARPA principal investigator in the Host Intrusion Protection (HIP) Research Group at McAfee Research."

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  1. Re:How is this different? by astrashe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just saw a blog post today, about user mode linux, and the grief it inflicts:

    http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/softwar e/ misc/manoj.2004.07.27.html

    I don't know that's not a direct answer to your question, but I think it's one of the main differences between doing this sort of thing on BSD and Linux.

  2. Zones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Solaris 10 zones are based on the same idea.