[brlug-general] VMware security..

[Dustin Puryear]

Let us not forget that Xen also has a close relationship with Microsoft.
Well, XenSource actually.

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Fernando Vilas wrote:
> 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.
> 
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