IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure

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)."

Comments

Doesn't run Windows

[cerberusss]

I wish it would run Windows, but it doesn't. That would mean a cheap alternative to VMWare and would also mean a much higher usage (and thus testing).

They give a reason:

Longer term, virtualisation features in next-generation CPUs should make it much easier to support unmodified OSes: at that time we will reconsider Windows support.

Although I understand, I'm unsure why VMWare and Bochs can run Windows and Xen can't...

Re:I'm lazy, refuse to RTFA

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm team lead for Unix/Linux for a division of a Fortune 300 and we're deploying Xen all over the place. I'd say it's not obscure at all. My objective is to collapse a couple hundres RH installations onto a handfull of boxes. We don't need a z800 but we also don't need 100+'s of discrete hardware systems either.

With IBM, Novell, etc. getting on board, and with containers in Solaris 10 being deployed more, the VM architecture is going to be huge very soon - no matter who's implmentation.

An idea

[Mitchell Mebane]

I wonder if ReactOS has any plans for supporting Xen in the future? They're not at a "Windows replacement" stage yet, but the project seems to be moving pretty fast.