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On 08/06/2012 02:17 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Has anyone tried OpenBSD on Virtualbox?. Any reason why the
> OpenBSD kernel might be more problematic to virtualize then
> Linux?.

I've been running OpenBSD (32-bit) in VirtualBox since obsd v4.5 for
high security and disposable desktops.  Not a big deal.  X with a
Gnome (v2.x) desktop even works nicely.  I routinely restore to the
last known-good snapshot when I'm done.

> I´ve read that for some reason that some in the OpenBSD community
> are very anti-virtualization and tell people to ´just run OpenBSD
> on real hardware"...

They are, due to the vulnerability footprint inherent in virtualizing
a system.  There are known vulns (and no doubt zero days still locked
upp) for virtualization systems that let the attacker break out and
then go traipsing about with elevated privileges.

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