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Here’s another post about a paper I’ve read recently. This time it’s not entirely for fun, but I still thought I’d write about this one, Adventures with a certain Xen vulnerability (in the PVFB backend). I’ve read a few security-related papers and articles. In general I’ve found that there’s a huge gap in quality (and sometimes rigor) between the practitioners and academia. This however is a paper that I found to be of good quality, while still being produced by a member of the former camp. Hopefully it will start a trend

According to an article on ElReg there will be support for Windows in Xen later this year. I am already dreaming of migrating my work desktop to Xen, running Windows in one ‘machine’ and a real OS in another. The few things I need Windows for can all be done through RDP… Ahh, I can’t wait!