You&#x27;re assuming here that there aren&#x27;t and never will be exploits that break out of the hypervisor. This is not the world we live in. In literally exactly the same way that you can break out of an application in to kernel space, you can break out of a guest VM in to hypervisor space. VM guests are processes, and hypervisors are operating systems. We&#x27;ve switched the terminology around a bit, but in doing so we&#x27;ve given up decades of OS development