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Comment by bonzini

> QEMU is often the subject of bugs affecting its reliability and security.

{{citation needed}}?

When I ran the numbers in 2019, there hadn't been guest exploitable vulnerabilities that affected devices normally used for IaaS for 3 years. Pretty much every cloud outside the big three (AWS, GCE, Azure) runs on QEMU.

Here's a talk I gave about it that includes that analysis:

slides - https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2019/kvmforum19-bloat.pdf

video - https://youtu.be/5TY7m1AneRY?si=Sj0DFpRav7PAzQ0Y

parent bonzini 2 years ago

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