Savannah W-ITS

VirtualBox Security Tools – testing or installing Live CD images as virtual machines
I noted that this seems to be a popular approach for VMWare images and decided to try a few tools out using VirtualBox.   As with any such ’security solution’ you should carefully evaluate the tools that you allow (or the OS builds that you [...]

NOTE – I am a disruptive user – I typically explore new(er) technology offerings in a manner that vendors might not prefer so please note that your mileage should vary, especially if you are a non-disruptive user…

Xen?  I thought that Xen = Citrix?

Yes and no…   The Citrix product line includes technologies developed/derived from the Xen Open Source project. 

I get vendor emails on a daily basis – I usually ignore the web links that they contain…

Today, I accepted the invitation to visit Sun’s Web site.  While there, I happened upon an Open Solaris VDI download (~2GB compressed image.)  After downloading just uncompress, import into your VDI disk image selections, create a new Open Solaris type virtual machine (VM) and

OS Virtualization is at the heart of Cloud/Clustered computing – finding a computing services solution that allows you to maximize your hardware as well as providing reasonable performance and functionality can be a challenge.  There are a number of prominent commercial vendors of this type of technology (VMWare, Citrix/Xen, Microsoft and more); many of these commercial products are linked to or based on Open Source virtualization solutions. After exploring a number of these solutions I came across