Re: Virtualization and Security ?

[Eric Case <ecase () EMAIL ARIZONA EDU>]

At 09:40 AM 11/11/2008 -0500, Joel Rosenblatt wrote:
> One thing that we ran into was that the administrator of the hosting
> system should be able to shut down each virtual machine separately -
> we had one virtual machine compromised over a weekend and the only
> person available was the admin of the host - so, the whole system
> was shut down until we could dig up the admin of the bad virtual host.

     Why didn't you suspend the compromised machine?
-Eric


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