The way I understand it, it seems that VMware's plan is to not focus at all on software end of the security problem but put most of it's focus on the hardware end. You can read more at CNET.com's site there they seem to say that the strength of VMware is that it emulates the underlying hardware.
I suppose that given that you could have multiple operating systems which just reside on one computer and use the same computer but have nothing to do with one another. The way it sounds to me is that it's (possibly) an easier version of a dual or tri- boot.
But if one were to try to do that within an operating system there seems like there would have to be a tremendous number of obstacles to overcome.
Maybe it would just be better if they used a bootloader like the one that comes with Partition Magic or LILO. Encrypt each partition (or separate hard drive) or something so that they were each separate and you couldn't just boot into any partition. And run the system that way were each different partition is separate and encrypted.
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The way I understand it, it seems that VMware's plan is to not focus at all on software end of the security problem but put most of it's focus on the hardware end. You can read more at CNET.com's site
there they seem to say that the strength of VMware is that it emulates the underlying hardware. I suppose that given that you could have multiple operating systems which just reside on one computer and use the same computer but have nothing to do with one another. The way it sounds to me is that it's (possibly) an easier version of a dual or tri- boot. But if one were to try to do that within an operating system there seems like there would have to be a tremendous number of obstacles to overcome. Maybe it would just be better if they used a bootloader like the one that comes with Partition Magic or LILO. Encrypt each partition (or separate hard drive) or something so that they were each separate and you couldn't just boot into any partition. And run the system that way were each different partition is separate and encrypted.
So that's $1,000,000 I dunno...eBay?