In the past two weeks, I have been assigned 2 VMWare tasks, one at work and one here at school. At work, one VERY overworked network guy gave me a 10 minute introduction to VMWare as in "Here's how you log in, here's your password, let me know if you have any questions." I did go through the training videos on it at http://www.vmware.com/products/labmanager/tutorials.html. I am looking forward to working with VMWare for this class.
I went to secunia.com (I like their maps), and looked at their recent advisories. One of them is for VMWare, http://secunia.com/advisories/36389/.
I wonder what new security risks VMWare will pose? The technology appears to me to be the future.
My introduction to VMware was the head of IT handed me the installation disk. The good news was that, even back then (circa 2002), it worked pretty well.
ReplyDeleteI played around with several different OSes under the Linux equivalent of VMware for my project last semester. One of the things I noticed is that IP sequence numbers are not well randomized regardless of the OS running within a Linux VM. This may not be the case for VMware. On the other hand, if it is, it makes systems running in a VM vulnerable to session hijacking. I'll have to try one of the VMware pre-made images at some point and see.
Cheers,
Dave
I am looking forward to talking to you about this.
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