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Free XenServer release moved to March 30
Quick follow-up to yesterday’s post:
The download page for XenServer / Essentials for XenSource now says:
“The new free Citrix XenServer will be available on March 30.”
So, we’ll have to wait until Monday. No reason is given for this change that I can find.
Meanwhile, you can still download the current version of XenServer for free along with [...]
XenServer virtualization to go free today
March 25 is the day Citrix their promised to release XenServer with the Essentials virtualization management suite for free.
As of 8:30am EDT their download page still points to a different version. Hopefully that will change in a few hours.
VMware paved the way a few years ago by releasing VMWare Server for free, followed later the [...]
CIS releases Vmware ESX security guide
The Center for Internet Security has now released guidelines for hardening hosts running VMWare ESX Server 3. This supplements the more general virtual machine security guide they published in September.
The ESX guidelines cover basic to intermediate techniques for hardening the ESX host and linux-based service console, including ESX-specific guidance for file and directory permissions and [...]
Multiple critical vulnerabilities in all VMware products
VMware has announced several privilege escalation and denial of service vulnerabilities affecting every single supported VMware product, including the flagship VMware ESX server product line. Some of the issues could potentially allow users in a guest VM to execute code on the host, so these are critical problems.
Interestingly, the [...]
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The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has published a nice little guideline on hardening virtual machines . The guide covers security issues for both guests and hosts and applies to any virtualization product, not just VMWare.
CIS has created a number of guidelines for hardening popular operating systems, routers [...]
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