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Can virtualisation solve this ? Is it possible to have a virtualised environment like Qubes but for programs ?
by foobar_ 7y ago
Can virtualisation solve this ? Is it possible to have a virtualised environment like Qubes but for programs ?
- jcelerier 7y agoyes, that's called a "process" in operating systems.
- simias 7y agoVirtualization can help reduce the harm caused by a misbehaving program but it won't magically make the program behave correctly. Having a program cause a memory violation and be killed by the OS is the best possible outcome in this case, it stops the program from doing any damage and you get a clear symptom of the problem for debugging. It's when the issue is not that obvious that you're in real trouble because it may start behaving erratically, corrupt data and be exploited by malicious actors to get access to resources that shouldn't be exposed.