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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:42:44 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: David Wagner <daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: Simple patches for Linux as a guest OS in a plex86 VM (please consider)
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Hi!

> >All alternatives I have seen to UML (plex, vmware, UMLinux) suck IMHO.
> 
> It seems plausible to expect that it might be easier to verify security
> in plex86-based approaches than it is to verify security in UML.

As plex86 uses pretty obscure tricks (like PVI -- is it even
documented in official Intel docs?), I doubt it is going to be easier
to verify.
								Pavel

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