Talk:Hyperjacking

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Merger proposal

I propose that Virtual machine escape be merged into Hyperjacking. I think that the content in the Virtual machine escape article overlaps with and can easily be explained in the context of Hyperjacking, and that they are perhaps even the same concept. Also, the Hyperjacking article is of a reasonable size, so the merging of Virtual machine escape will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned.

If other editors would prefer that Hyperjacking instead be merged into Virtual machine escape, I would be sympathetic to that, too. My main aim is to avoid having two articles about essentially the same concept.

I am not watching this talk page, so please WP:PING me if you reply and want me to notice that you have done so. Thanks, Zazpot (talk) 03:43, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Zazpot: I see nobody has been interested in the merge more than one year. Seeing further, the Hyperjacking is just a type of Virtual machine escape attack (where the target is the hypervisor rather than the host OS), and the contents is enough to keep in a separated article. --Amitie 10g (talk) 22:04, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Closing, given the absence of support. Klbrain (talk) 18:31, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear use of "Above" and "Below"

This explanation seems backwards to me:

"The point of the attack is to target the operating system that is below that of the virtual machines so that the attacker's program can run and the applications on the VMs above it will be completely oblivious to its presence."

The prefix "hyper" means "above" - see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyper%2D - so a hypervisor would run above a VM, not below it. 87.80.188.218 (talk) 10:16, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]