Not Much Hyperventilating Over Hacker's Hypervisor Code Theft

 

A hacker with the handle "Hardcore Charlie" has stolen source code for VMware's ESX hypervisor and posted it on the Internet. A hypervisor provides a virtualization layer between operating systems and the underlying hardware, creating a virtual machine. This lets users run multiple virtual machines on one processor. Hypervisors are key to virtualization and cloud computing. Hardcore Charlie claims he obtained the code for the VMware Kernel and the TraceViz GUI. He's promised to post more VMware source code on the Internet in May