Open Virtual Machine Tools

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Analyzed about 6 years ago. based on code collected about 6 years ago.

Project Summary

VMware is announcing the release of large portions of VMware Tools for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD guests under GPL and GPL-compatible licenses. VMware is also announcing the creation of the Open Virtual Machine Tools ("open-vm-tools") project on Sourceforge.net. This will become the home for ongoing development.

In a Nutshell, Open Virtual Machine Tools...

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has had 2,237 commits made by 7 contributors
representing 170,571 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a very well-commented source code
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has a codebase with a long source history
maintained by a small development team
with decreasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 44 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2008
ending with its most recent commit over 6 years ago

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

Security Confidence Index

Poor security track-record

Favorable security track-record

Vulnerability Exposure Index

Many reported vulnerabilities

Few reported vulnerabilities

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