VMware exploits - just how bad is it?

This SANS ISC post has a link to a video showing the guest OS able to open the calc application in the host OS. Escape from the Matrix is looking increasingly plausible.

Here's what Kevin Riggins of the InfosecRamblings.com blog had to say about it:

If you allow virtual guests with different security characteristics to live on the same host, you might want to rethink that decision.

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