Replies to post #186105 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[oknpv]

x-point...I certainly found your post on citrix to be of great interest & hope you are correct. As a total non-techie, I have always found it confounding that there is the problem of massive piracy & internet breaches, Trusted solutions that havent been activated but are continuously bundled in product by the millions, & I have had to theorize there is still something missing for triggering implementation of TC. I havent been able to accept the reasoning that IT pros arent savvy or sales forces of Wave & the big OEMs cant complete a deal. Also, we have all seen govt. move slowly, but also very fast when they want to. W/o understanding the tech involved.....I would love to see your ideas proven correct & how about "lighting up TPMs" en masse soon.....before the Mar. CC?

[RootOfTrust]

x-point, awesome DD and understanding of trusted computing. I will need some time to study this. Will attempt to weigh in later. Thanks a bunch!

[RootOfTrust]

x-point, I'm still trying to understand virtualization technology and hypervisors, but to begin with, did you see this from one of your links?

Dell plans to certify the product on its computing platforms, and has provided engineering support to aid in the design and testing of the new technology. “Simplifying computing, and saving time and money for customers has always been at the heart of our business, so we are delighted to work with Citrix and Intel to enable this new class of virtualization solutions,” said Darrel Ward, Director of Commercial Desktops, Dell Product Group. “Virtualization has the potential to dramatically streamline acquisition and management of corporate desktops, improve TCO and ultimately allow us to offer our customers more efficient and diverse solutions.”

http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1685762

I need more time to research all this material, but here's the Wikipedia article on hypervisor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

[Doma]

Thanks X-point!...Seems TPMs are a part of Xen Architecture

Another slide covers Xen Architectural's Advantages -

Xen's true hypervisor architecture enables
excellent security and scalability
• Lightweight service domains
- I/O driver domains and utility domains
- Device emulation domains
- Domain building / measurement domains
• Allows efficient large SMP scalability
• Minimum privilege, small TCB
- De-privilege and disaggregate domain 0
True hypervisor design
- Small privileged component, principle of least privilege
• Secure compartmentalization
- Grant tables allow controlled sharing
• Optimized as a hypervisor
• Cross-platform: x86, ia64, Power and ARM
• OS agnostic: Windows, Linux, Solaris, *BSD
• Flexible to enable domain0 disaggregation
- Control-plane OS (e.g. OpenBSD or MiniOS)
- Driver domains
- Service domains (e.g. virus scanners, firewalls etc)
Ian briefly covers the Xen Project Roadmap as well -




Server
- Performance and scalability optimizations
- Enable Smart IO devices
- SCSI pass-through

• Security
- Domain0 disaggregation; XSM Xen Security Modules
- Secure boot, TPM, certification, multi-level secure systems

• Client
- Power management
Suspend and hibernate; Clock management
- 3D video
direct h/w access; high-performance guest virtualization
- USB device pass-through

[kailito1]

Hi x-point- Now that we thought everything is set and ready to go, you came with this missing hypervisor piece and start raining on Wave's parade with this waiting game....you made some sense though cause I remember vpro suppose to kick start trusted computing couple years ago and yet it stalled and nothing happened....probably you're right.

[TonyMcFadden]

Thanks. This is a good recap for a guy (me) who's been out of the picture for a little while...