All Posts Tagged With: "Xen"
vMAN Over At DMTF Is Immune To Kryptonite And Now Powered by OVF Version 1.0
In this exclusive interview at VMworld in Las Vegas, DMTF president Winston Bumpus reveals the release of OVF 1.0 and their larger Virtualization Management Initiative(vMAN). VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle.
16Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedopenQRM 4.1 Released With Support for KVM
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Matt just sent mail to let us know that the openQRM team has released a fresh openQRM 4.1
After the initial 4.0 release of the “next generation” of openQRM, re-written in PHP, the new release comes with some nice new features. the most important one being the addition of . support for KVM-Virtualization And [...]
Citrix To Jump On Cloud Wagon, But How?
Tarry is hinting at a “big” announcement that Citrix will make on September 15th. He reveals nothing, apparently having signed an NDA, but hints that the news concerns his topic of focus of lately. An acquisition? A major update of their product line?
10Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedRedHat Picks Up Qumranet
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According to Globes, RedHat has acquired Qumranet (confirmed via press release)
“Redhat announced its acquisition of Israeli virtualization start-up Qumranet Inc. for about $100 million, ending a long period of rumors. This is Red Hat’s first acquisition in Israel, and it will turn the Linux software company into a market leader in virtualization. Qumranet [...]
Citrix Releases XenApp 5, Will It Prove To Become The Application Virtualization Standard?
Citrix today announced the release of Citrix XenApp 5, and claims it “breaks through performance and operating-cost barriers, making application start times up to 10 times faster, dramatically improving end-user experience and lowering application management costs by more than 25 percent over previous versions”.
25Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedStoneFly IP SAN Configurations Now Fit For Citrix XenServer
StoneFly, a supplier of integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems and a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, today announced that all of its IP SAN configurations have completed Citrix Ready compatibility verification testing for use with server virtualization solutions from Citrix Systems.
25Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedXen 3.3.0 Available For Download
A recent post on the Xen blog featured a proposed data sheet (PDF) for the (back then upcoming) Xen 3.3 release, which we said was in final testing stage in the beginning of this month. Now Xen 3.3.0 is here and ready for download.
25Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued0wning Xen … In More Detail
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Over at her own blog, Joanna Rutkowska from Invisible Things has some updates on their findings about Xen security as we earlier reported.
Joanna argues that most of the attacks presented indeed require that the attacker first gains access to the Dom0 before he can launch the attacks but that doesn’t take away the [...]
DataSheet Proposal for Xen 3.3 Hypervisor Published
Stephen Spector published a post yesterday on the Xen blog featuring a proposed data sheet for the upcoming Xen 3.3 release, which we said was in final testing stage in the beginning of this month.
19Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedIBM launches the open-ovf project
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Scott Moser from IBM’s Systems Technology Group has released the first version of the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to help establish OVF as a transparent and platform-neutral method for packaging virtual machine images.
The goal [...]
Should VMWare Watch Out For VirtualBox?
IT Wire has a good introductory article about VirtualBox. Sadly, their introduction is a bit wrong in the details.
14Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued0wning Xen?
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InvisibleThings.org posted some more details on their Xen Owning Trilogy session at last weeks Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Joanna Rutkowska and her crew gave a series of 3 talks discussing different potential security issues with Xen. With the VirtSec awareness growing this obviously is an important topic .
When quickly skimming trough the presentations [...]
