Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Daily Archives: January 22, 2008
Security in "Virtual Clouds"
Posted by on January 22, 2008
Interesting article here What if you could breach the hypervisor? best practice would dictate firewalling off the management traffic to the service console to a management network but what if you could exploit the VM Tools or other enlightenments/paravirtualizations to compromise the hypervisor – if you could you own every VM it’s running. Does [...]
Apple: Nothing to see here, move along please
Posted by on January 22, 2008
This is a bit underhanded; preventing debugging tools from tracing your applications especially when the underlying OS is derived from Open Source technology where one would expect to have such access. Although you can obviously patch it yourself as you can have the source and recompile the associated binaries; bit of a waste of [...]
Lots of Useful Scripts to Automate VMWare
Posted by on January 22, 2008
http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/categories/10-VMware-PowerShell Like this one … must have a go at this http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/316-Create-multiple-VMs-using-PowerShell.html and http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/279-My-first-VMware-PowerShell-script.html Wonder if you can also use these against the Free VMWare Server?
VMWare Stage Manager – No P2V/V2P Integration
Posted by on January 22, 2008
Ah, show-stopper for me for most of my potential customers; as far as I can tell from the demo video the product is geared more towards a VM-only environment. Maybe I misunderstood the announcements but I had thought I would be able to clone physical production servers (P2V and V2P) into stage manager for doing [...]
VMWare Stage Manager Beta is Open..
Posted by on January 22, 2008
Go and get it from here I spent a lot of time at the start of 2007 building this type of system from scratch (see the build a better test lab posts). hopefully this will go a long way to making it easier to achieve.
Deploying a Virtual Machine from a Template with Virtual Center 2.5
Posted by on January 22, 2008
(Apologies to fellow Brits for the spelling of “center/centre”, it bugs me too! but that’s the product name, spelling and all – plus it helps our worldwide friends who are coming in via Google) Just incase you are interested here are the steps to do so. I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition “Gold” VM [...]
