Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 10/18/06, Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com> wrote:
> Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> > Are all hypervisors considered to be Operating Systems? Are the
> > creators writing their own kernel and such?
>
> You'd probably have to pick a definition of "operating system" to say
> for sure, but I think in general, the answer is no.  At least, not by
> any modern expectations of what needs to be in a useful operating
> system.  At minimum, a hypervisor can be a simple scheduler and some
> hardware drivers.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

damn, I should have checked there :*)

-jp
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