Foundations of Libvirt Development: How to Set Up and Maintain a Virtual Machine Environment with Python

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W. David AshleyFoundations of Libvirt Development https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4862-1_14

14. Securing Virtual Machines

W. David Ashley¹ 

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In this chapter, you’ll quickly review host and guest domain security.

As you know, a host is a computer connected to one or more guest domains. The number of guest domains is limited only by the capacity of the server. The domains may be on a private virtual network or a shared network via a shared network adapter on the host.

While guest domain security will be similar to the host’s, there are some additional items that apply. In most cases, the OS should be hardened just like the host. However, there may be both exceptions and additional hardening necessary. For instance, ...