[brlug-general] VMware security..

[Fernando Vilas]

On Sunday 23 September 2007 20:09:34 Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Well, it's not NEW news per se. VM software has never been risk-free--no
> software is. And as far as "between" VMs, well, there is a big VMware
> market for software that acts as a sentry between VMs to watch for
> problems and attacks. Funny, eh?
>
Sounds like a virtual router/firewall/IDS to me.  Useful, but it also smacks 
of the market created by MS for security software in the 1990s.

> Didn't EMC or someone just buy one of those smaller VM security vendors
> up? I think so.
>

Xen was either created at or bought by Novell, and Sun has a partnership with 
them relating to OpenSolaris playing nice with Xen.  KVM is open source and 
mostly came from the qEMU project before being merged into the mainline linux 
kernel.  I think the VM vendor that EMC bought was VMWare, unless you were 
referring to one of the watchdog type software suites.

-- 
Thanks,
Fernando Vilas
fvilas at iname.com
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