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		kbar13 on Feb 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Five new undisclosed Xen vulnerabilities realize that there's Xen HVM and Xen PV. there have been significantly more security issues in HVM than there have been in PV.

walterbell on Feb 27, 2015 [–]

Do we know why HVM/hw-virt has had more security issues than PV/sw-virt?

larsk on Feb 27, 2015 | [–]

Yes, because it uses QEMU. That means more code, and ultimately more bugs, which means more possible exploits.

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