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Xen Project | September 09, 2016

The Xen Project has fixed four vulnerabilities in its widely used virtualization software, two of which could allow malicious virtual machine administrators to take over host servers. Flaws that break the isolation layer between virtual machines are the most serious kind for a hypervisor like Xen, which allows users to run multiple VMs on the same underlying hardware in a secure manner. The Xen hypervisor is widely used by cloud computing providers and virtual private server hosting companies ...

IT Unmasked | November 29, 2016

At a Node.js Interactive North America event today, the Node.js Foundation took a significant step toward achieving the goal of virtual machine neutrality by demonstrating a proof of concept implementation of a Node.js API Stable Module Application Programming Interface (NAPI) that makes it possible to deploy Node.js applications on top of multiple types of virtual machines.Based on JavaScript, Node.js applications today can already run on top of multiple virtual machines. But porting applicatio...

jaxenter | July 01, 2016

JetBrains’ Andrey Breslav recently announced the availability of the first Technology Preview of Kotlin/Native which compiles Kotlin directly to machine code — so there’s no need for a virtual machine. Although it is not a fully functional release yet, users can now play with the technology and look at its source code. Kotlin/Native is a LLVM backend for the Kotlin compiler, runtime implementation and native code generation facility using LLVM toolchain. It is mainly designed to allow compilatio...

CRN | January 15, 2020

The industry's leading virtualization technology vendors—VMware and Citrix—have finalized a settlement that will avoid further litigation stemming from VMware's recent acquisition of Avi Networks. The two companies have “resolved the litigation” without taking their patent-infringement dispute to trial, confirmed Tony Gomes, Citrix executive vice president and chief legal officer. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. When it closed its deal for Santa Clara-based Avi Networks this past sum...