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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070923/59fd7a75/attachment.bin
