How Safe is VMware’s Hypervisor?

VMware researcher Oded Horovitz got an earful when he told a group of security buffs his company’s virtualization software was theoretically impenetrable. Speaking at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, his hour-long presentation, titled Virtually Secure, included a slide titled “VM Escape” that carried the following bullet point:

“Though impossible by design, the hypervisor can still have implementation vulnerabilities.”

It was more than some attendees could bear.

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