VPS / Jail / Bhyve File System isolation

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Thu Nov 21 19:42:26 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Alexandre Biancalana
<biancalana at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Lauzé <brunolauze at msn.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Using jails, customers are uncomfortable with the fact documents can be
>> > accessed from the host with root access.Project VPS seems to isolate more
>> > the guest from the host but not as well as an hypervisor like bhyve. With an
>> > hypervisor what the client have is private, as long as the host can manage
>> > the disk, delete it,  but the information is kept private from the host.
>> > Any suggestions how to offer jail, vps, or anything containers
>> > techniques with total file system isolation from the host, or the only way
>> > is to go hypervisor, with the performance and instances count penalty that
>> > goes with it?
>>
>> Untrusted hypervisors is an active area of academic research.
>> However, any such scheme requires additional hardware support.
>>
>> If you are interested I can give you some papers to look at.
>
>
> I'm interested, can you provide the links of the papers ?

I've replied in private mail.


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Eitan Adler


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