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[Xen-devel] What is more secure? HVM or PV ?

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Subject: [Xen-devel] What is more secure? HVM or PV ?
From: "David Pilger" <pilger.david@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:40:06 +0200
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Hi,

So what's more secure? a HVM or a PV DomU?
Which one of the architectures is more "open" for attacks, if someone
wants to execute code in domain0 ?

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