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arXiv:1407.4245cs.CR

Security of OS-level virtualization technologies: Technical report

Elena Reshetova, Janne Karhunen, Thomas Nyman, N. Asokan

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Abstract

The need for flexible, low-overhead virtualization is evident on many fronts ranging from high-density cloud servers to mobile devices. During the past decade OS-level virtualization has emerged as a new, efficient approach for virtualization, with implementations in multiple different Unix-based systems. Despite its popularity, there has been no systematic study of OS-level virtualization from the point of view of security. In this report, we conduct a comparative study of several OS-level virtualization systems, discuss their security and identify some gaps in current solutions.

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20 pages, 2 figures
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cs.CRCryptography and Security cs.DCDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing cs.OSOperating Systems

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    • I thought that linking to the abstract (in this case: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4245) is preferred, because that way updated versions of the paper will be visible, whereas linking directly to PDF gives you a specific version that cannot be updated. I don't remember where I've…

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