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globalcitizen committed Jan 2, 2014
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is not required, the init process is largely
IO bound.


Security Notes
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- Don't treat guests as root safe
- Best practice is to be paranoid:
- Drop most capabilities
- Keep the filesystem for each guest on a separate logical block device (eg. LVM2 LV)
- Do not use UIDs on the guest that intsersect with the host system
- Make sure you never both (1) mount ```proc``` in a guest that you don't trust, and (2) have ```CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ``` 'Magic SysRq Key' enabled in your kernel (which creates ```/proc/sysrq-trigger```) ... as this can be abused for denial of service


Requirements
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- Recent Linux kernel (>=3.2.x recommended, >=3.7.x actively tested)
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