It's been a long summer, alot of reading and research carried out.

I've read numerous papers on Virtualization & security:

The highlights included a paper on "Secure Virtualization & MultiCore Platforms state-of-the-Art Rreport by Heradon Douglas & Christian Gehrmann of SICS

I've looked at a number of different Hosted & Baremetal Hypervisors including:

Virtualbox, Parallels & VMWare Workstation running on Unbutu/WinXP32bit/Win764bit

Baremetal hypervisors such as Microsofts Hyper-V, Citrix XENServer, VMWare ESXi and RedHat's KVM