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docs: Clarify security boundaries in privileged mode
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* [Overview](#overview)
* [Definiton of a limitation](#definiton-of-a-limitation)
* [Definition of a limitation](#definiton-of-a-limitation)
* [Scope](#scope)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [Pending items](#pending-items)
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its own kernel. Due to this higher degree of isolation, certain container
capabilities cannot be supported or are implicitly enabled through the VM.
# Definiton of a limitation
# Definition of a limitation
The [Open Container Initiative](https://www.opencontainers.org/)
[Runtime Specification](https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec) ("OCI spec")
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Privileged support in Kata is essentially different from `runc` containers.
Kata does support `docker run --privileged` command, but in this case full access
to the guest VM is provided instead of the host.
to the guest VM is provided in addition to some host access.
The container runs with elevated capabilities within the guest and is granted
access to guest devices instead of the host devices.
This is also true with using `securityContext privileged=true` with Kubernetes.
The container may also be granted full access to a subset of host devices
(https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/1568).
# Miscellaneous
This section lists limitations where the possible solutions are uncertain.