2009/3/18 Michiel van Baak <mich...@vanbaak.info>: > I'm running OpenBSD 4.4 and -current under KVM here at home. > I wont run it in production tho. Real hardware is much more stable.
I agree. I use VMware Workstation at home/work and ESX3 at work. I had a lot of distrust initially (2004), but over a few years I had developed confidence that it could be reliable for test systems and servers where I was being forced to use VM's. However I have seen performance quirks with ESX3.5 and when I patched my 6.5 Workstation to 6.5.1, OpenBSD -stable gets ddb> when trying to build release. Now my paranoia is back and I think it was healthy paranoia all along. Plus, besides the reduced stability, there is all the research that has proven that this new complex software layer has introduced a whole new realm for attack. Anyone just needs to take a look through the descriptions of VMware's patches. Descriptions which state that exploitation of x vulnerability can cause arbitrary code execution outside of the rooted guest and into other guests and even the host.
