I have a couple of questions for those of you who currently use some virtualization in your workplace.
1. Is the virtual machine effectively an “island” inregards to the underlying OS. i.e. if the Virtual machine became infected would the virus/trojan etc. be able to get to the underlying OS to corrupt that as well.
2. If you are using on production machines is there a significant hit on performance..if not how much ram are the machines in question running.
I ask this because I am in the process of interviewing for 2 different sys admin jobs and was looking at a way to cut down the time spent on system security monitoring. if all of the clients could successfully run a virtual machine on top of the OS and NOT run the chance of infecting that OS then if a virus did make it through it would not necessarily be able to cripple the machine or the network in general.
Am I generally right in that assessment or is there more to this that needs to be looked at before implementing such a plan.
Thanks for your comments in advance.
