Virtualization for security

Virtualization for security
Scott Granneman, 2006-04-12

Sometimes we don't really see what our eyes are viewing. That's true with your computer screen, and it's true in nature as well. Oh sure, we can say what we think we're seeing, but we're missing the big story such as the man behind the curtain, to recall a famous phrase from an even more beloved movie.

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It's a pity that the whole bunch of projects and products that do OS-level virtualization is not mentioned at all. The fact is OS level virtualization makes it able to run apps on a native speed, so you do not have to lose anything when you get the ability to run your apps in a separated virtual environments.

A few examples are Zones for Solaris, OpenVZ for Linux, or jails for FreeBSD.

And yes, this approach is different than the one used by, say, Xen. See more here: http://openvz.org/documentation/tech/virtualization

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