Re: Would a DOS on dovecot running under a VM cause host to crash?

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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:27:07AM +1200, Hugh Davenport wrote:
> The "attack" lasted around 4 minutes, in which there was 1161 lines
> in the log for a
> single attacker ip, and no other similar logs previously.
> 
> Would this be enough to kill not only the VM running dovecot, but
> the underlying host
> machine?

Have you checked logs on the host?  Specifically /var/log/messages for
seg fault messages or Out-of-Memory Killer messages.

It's also worth checking /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<domain>.log if you are
using libvirt.  That file contains the QEMU stderr output.

Stefan
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