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


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  • From: "David Pilger" <pilger.david@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:35:01 +0200
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Let me rephrase my question -
What are the attack vectors for each architecture?

For PV it's the Paravirtualization API and hypercalls, and for HVM
it's the VMEXIT Parsing / QEMU states and hypercalls...

Are there other attack vectors that may be used to hack from a domU or
HVM into dom0? can we get an obvious conclusion about which
architechture is more secure? PV or HVM?

Thanks,
David.

On 12/18/06, David Pilger <pilger.david@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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