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[News] VMware Uses Open Source and Linux to Imporve and Secure Its Software

  • Subject: [News] VMware Uses Open Source and Linux to Imporve and Secure Its Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:52:05 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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VMware Says Academic Program Attracting Schools, Releases Tools as Open Source

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| This news comes at VMware released most of its VMware Tools as open source. 
| The tools are a suite of guest operating system virtualization components 
| geared to improve Vmware virtual machine performance and management.  
|
| VMware is aiming to ease Linux integration for its distribution partners with 
| the open source tools by easing porting to new operating systems, increasing 
| user involvement in test and development and fostering innovation. To that 
| end, Linux vendors can now integrate open-source-based VMware Tools -- hosted 
| at Sourceforce.net -- into future versions of their OSes.    
| 
| VMware is working with vendors such as Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu to 
| integrate open-source VMware Tools into their operating system installation 
| processes.  
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http://campustechnology.com/articles/50409/

Virtual Servers, Real Vulnerabilities

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| VMware released a patch for the DHCP bug on Thursday, and the company's 
| senior director of products Nand Mulchandani responds to Internet Security 
| Systems' Friday post by pointing out that most of the security flaws apply 
| only to a few of VMware's many products. The DHCP vulnerability, he said, 
| only applied to four programs, all of which are hosted on Linux or Windows 
| operating systems, not VMware's own ESX servers.     
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/21/virtualization-software-security-tech-security_cx_ag_0921vmware.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2ov5gg


Related:

VMware opens the source code for VMware Tools

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| VMware's decision to open the source code is highly advantageous for the open 
| source software community. Distributions will now be able to provide VMware 
| Tools packages through standard package management systems, which means that 
| users will no longer have to manually compile the kernel modules during 
| installation.    
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/09/11/vmware-opens-the-source-code-for-vmware-tools

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