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It is not at all misleading—it is in fact correct to state that several open source "cloud infrastructure" projects rely on libvirt's ability to do a lot of gue
by kashyapc 6y ago
It is not at all misleading—it is in fact correct to state that several open source "cloud infrastructure" projects rely on libvirt's ability to do a lot of guest life cycle heavy-lifting.
And not least of all, libvirt provides critical layered security for QEMU processes (i.e. VMs) through Linux Namespaces, CGroups, sVirt ('Secure Virtualization', based SELinux), and more.
(Also see user bonzini's response here for some more detail — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24372499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24372499)