A German researcher at the University of Marburg has uncovered a security flaw in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The flaw is a bug in Microsoft's bytecode verifier. According to Princeton University's Secure Internet Programming (SIP) unit...
Desktop virtualisation, allowing multiple OSes and software versions to run in different windows on the same PC, can increase productivity for software developers and testers by allowing them to create or test applications for multiple software...
To reflect this widening of focus, its tools will be renamed vCharter, vMigrator, vRanger and vReplicater - dropping the VMware inspired "esx" suffix and replacing it with the more generic "v". While other companies were promoting virtualisation...
In other news of partnerships between the virtualisation and open source realms, VMware announced a project called Open Virtual Machine Tools. The version is intended to be a more compact and higher-performance foundation for virtual machine...
This… allows customers and ISVs to build virtualisation management applications, processes and configurations based on a stable API, independent of the underlying virtualisation technology. Red Hat has bought its way further into the virtualisation...
In his speech, Herrod also introduced VMware Fault Tolerance, which is an add-on for VirtualCenter that will maintain a replica of a virtual machine, hosted on a second ESX Server system. The VMware VirtualCenter Server update will run on Linux and...