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General Virtual Hosting via Lightweight User-Level Virtualization
Trento, Italy January 31-February 04
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SAINT.2005.322005 Symposium on Applications and th ...
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P?ter Sur?nyi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hirotake Abe, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Toshio Hirotsu, Toyashi University of Technology, Japan & JST CREST
Yasushi Shinjo, University of Tsukuba, Japan & JST CREST
Kazuhiko Kato, University of Tsukuba, Japan & JST CREST
The abundance of computing resources in current systems makes it technically feasible to run services for multiple Internet sites on a single machine. However, in the UNIX security model, a vast majority of services must be run with superuser privileges. This increases security risks considerably when numerous services are running in parallel, making the isolation of services a critical issue. Virtual hosting systems have been implemented at the application level and at the operating system (OS) level and by running services in isolated full-scale virtual machines. We present a middleware approach to general virtual hosting that does not require modifications to the OS or the application. While completely implementable in the user-level in UNIX-like OSes, our system allows secure deployment of services, even when they are executed with superuser privileges.
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P?ter Sur?nyi, Hirotake Abe, Toshio Hirotsu, Yasushi Shinjo, Kazuhiko Kato, "General Virtual Hosting via Lightweight User-Level Virtualization," saint, pp.229-236, 2005 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT'05), 2005
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