On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:04:48PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:30:50AM -0800, Jeff_1981 wrote: > > > Please can you indicate me how to run Windows or Linux under OpenBSD ? > > > Under Linux for example there is possibility to virtualize another OS. > > > If the other OS is hacked from the web does it compromizes the security of > > > OpenBSD ? > > this is generally possible. If you kept an eye on the virtualization > methods under Linux, you will have encountered several cases where it > was possible for virtual machines to break out of their compartment, > and invade the host or other guest systems. Search eg. for "blue pill" > if you want more details.
As a footnote: Rafal Wojtczuk "recently" (October, 2008) published an interesting paper demonstrating an escape from a Xen guest to dom0 on i386 Fedora 8.[1] - Jukka. [1] http://invisiblethingslab.com/pub/xenfb-adventures-10.pdf
