Security of OS-level virtualization technologies: Technical report
Cryptography and Security
2014-07-17 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Operating Systems
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.4245,
title = {Security of OS-level virtualization technologies: Technical report},
author = {Elena Reshetova and Janne Karhunen and Thomas Nyman and N. Asokan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.4245},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
20 pages, 2 figures