Researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in an obscure component of many virtualization platforms that they say can allow an attacker to escape from a guest virtual machine and gain code execution ...

Are you looking for a reliable virtualization package to run multiple virtual machines that handle unmodified Linux or Windows images? Then look no further than your existing Linux configuration. It ...

Venom (Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation), the recently discovered security hole in the open-source QEMU virtual machine hypervisor, has been fixed. That's the good news. The ...

Most modern computers are powerful enough to run entire operating systems within your main operating systems, which means virtual machines are more commonplace today than ever. Here’s a look at the ...

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This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

ETH Zurich researchers found a new Spectre-BTI attack called VMSCAPE that lets a VM steal host data It affects cloud setups using KVM/QEMU on AMD and Intel CPUs, bypassing existing defenses They ...

What distribution are you loading up today, François? MCNLive? Very nice, and compact too. When you get a chance, you should copy it to your USB key. That way, you always can carry a live Linux ...