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How virtual is virtualization?

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Mar 15, 2026357 views
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While reading different materials on different subjects every now and then I come back upon the question: How virtual really is virtualization? With "virtualization" I mean things like Virtual PC and VMWare, which allow you to run an guest OS. In particular, what I don't understand is: Does the vir…

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As far as I know: There were studies on the possibility of an "undetectable rootkit" where a malicious hypervisor would sit between your computer and the hardware. Security firms (and CPU vendors) were enraged that someone devised something like tha…

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