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IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Doesn't run Windows by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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...
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  2. An idea by Mitchell+Mebane · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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