The popular security firm Core Security yesterday disclosed a serious security vulnerability found in all Microsoft hosted virtualisation products, including Virtual Server 2005, Virtual PC 2007 (with and without SP1) and Windows 7 Virtual PC. While Core Security is using the “hypervisor” terminology, this bug doesn’t affect any bare-metal virtualisation platform Microsoft has, including Hyper-V and Hyper-V R2. The vulnerability affects the virtual machine monitor (VMM) memory management. It makes memory pages mapped above the 2GB available with read or read/write access to user-space programs running in a Guest operating system.

See original here:
virtualisation.info

Stealthy start-up Nicira got some backing from VMware founder Diane Greene and is developing a network operating system designed to virtualize networks and create networks ideal for cloud deployments. Nicira’s founding team comes out of Stanford University, where Greene’s husband and VMware co-founder, Mendel Rosenblum, is a professor in computer science. he start-up’s CEO is Steve Mullaney, who… [[ This is a content summary only.

Read this article:
virtualisation.com

At the end of January Microsoft silently updated its Linux Integrated Components package to version 2.0, introducing the long awaited support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) guest operating systems in Hyper-V. Microsoft announced future support for Red Hat operating systems in July 2009, since the open source vendor joined the Server virtualisation Validation Program (SVVP). Customers had to wait no less than seven months to finally have a version of Hyper-V Linux Integrated Components that supports RHEL 5 (including 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 versions, both 32 and 64bit). Like for Novell SUSE Linux, Microsoft doesn’t include in the package the optimized drivers for mouse.

See the rest here:
virtualisation.info

Wyse software and Pippard have come together to create a POS system that is designed and optimized for these environments. The Pippard MRT-WCR includes the traditional POS system display, cash drawer, receipt printer and scanner, but its heart is based on a new Wyse virtual client processor combined with a Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2009 operating system. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

See the rest here:
virtualisation.com