But virtual appliances also escalate the war between Windows and Linux. Open source (primarily Linux) beats proprietary (Windows) in a virtual environment, Yankee stated.I am curious to read that report. VNUnet is covering it.
"Virtual appliances bring dramatic changes to an entrenched ecosystem of OS vendors, ISVs and IT departments, but changing the culture and businesses of these parties will not be easy," said Gary Chen, Yankee Group Enterprise Research senior analyst.
"From an ISV and customer perspective, it is hard to argue with the benefits that virtual appliances bring.
vulnerable software: VMware Workstation 6.0 for Windows, possible some other VMware products as well type of vulnerability: DoS, potential privilege escalation I found a vulnerability in VMware Workstation 6.0 which allows an unprivileged user in the host OS to crash the system and potentially run arbitrary code with kernel privileges. The issue is in the vmstor-60 driver, which is supposed to mount VMware images within the host OS. When sending the IOCTL code FsSetVoleInformation with subcode FsSetFileInformation with a large buffer and underreporting its size to at max 1024 bytes, it will underrun and potentially execute arbitrary code. Security focus
This is interesting indeed. Windows is definitely more popular than Linux (or UNIX) as an OS for multi-tier applications, but perhaps that will change as organizations move more towards virtualization
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