IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 17, 2005 @03:30AM from the getting-news-for-development dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the latest posting on the Xen developer list, IBM pledges to make Xen more secure by porting its secure hypervisor (sHype) architecture to it. In their posting, IBM discusses an SELinux like access control frame work, resource control and monitoring and trusted computing support for Xen. It appears that a lot is happening on the Xen front (for example, the announcement of XenSource Inc. and Intel's code drop in the xeno-unstable.bk tree for their super secret VT CPU)."

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I'm lazy, refuse to RTFA by LowneWulf · 2005-01-17 03:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

.... seriously people, when describing some new feature of some obscure software package, can you PLEASE tell us WHAT IS IS!?!??!one!!?

"And now, Fronzo v2.1.e, now 21% more secure!"
Re:Questions by Transdimentia · 2005-01-17 03:56 · Score: 3, Insightful

The first thing that pops into my mind would be for partitioning your machine into slices for hosting/dedicated customers while preventing them from walking on each other or even knowing they are there?