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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Unofficial Xen 2.0 debian packages kinda broken

> There are cases where strict separation is not an issue, where
> granting priviledges does not really matter.
>
> And even where strict separation is an issue, with Xen there shouldn't
> be any problem, should there?

No problem, it's perfectly safe in Xen for users to run whatever they please 
as a kernel.  If it tries to access things it shouldn't, the accesses will 
safely fail.  All security is enforced by Xen.

It'd be rather nice to have a Xen "bootloader" allowing users to choose a 
kernel they'd compiled without help from a sysadmin.  This is not technically 
difficult, so it's just a question of someone putting the time in.

HTH,
Mark


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