Hypervisor

Nutanix starts thinking outside the VM – with extra help from Dell

NEXT Brings its storage stack to AWS's EKS but still has time to improve its hypervisor

Storage21 May 2024 | 4

VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use

A nice gesture among the sh!tshow of Broadcom's acquisition

Virtualization14 May 2024 | 91

XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie

Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs

Virtualization27 Mar 2024 | 4

SoftIron rolls its own server virt stack to join the 'let's get VMware' crowd

Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful

Virtualization25 Mar 2024 | 4

VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with KVM conversion tool

Also urges customers to remove some of its software due to a critical vulnerability

Virtualization21 Feb 2024 | 23

As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix

A lot of IT depts can't wait to get past their ESX addiction

Channel18 Jan 2024 | 26

Xen Project improves the art of virtual machine maintenance with annual hypervisor release

Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs

Virtualization20 Nov 2023 |

South Korea approves Broadcom's VMware buy

Virtzilla's final releases as an indepdent company might be biggish upgrades to its desktop hypervisors

Virtualization23 Oct 2023 | 1

UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities

Friday FOSS Fest Fancy running Windows, Linux and Classic MacOS on your modern x86-64 or Arm64 Mac? Walk this way

Virtualization29 Sep 2023 | 19

XenServer teases free VMware migration package

Citrix's virtualization spin out goes a bit Musky by revealing its own X-centric logo

Virtualization02 Aug 2023 | 8

VMware turns 25 today: Is it a mature professional or headed back to Mom's house?

Special feature Beat Microsoft. Set agendas. Became essential. Hiked prices. Now we wait for Broadcom's reign

Virtualization10 Feb 2023 | 15

Xen hypervisor port to RISC-V moving – slowly, but moving

Far from ready, but developer thinks it's helping the whole codebase

Virtualization09 Feb 2023 | 4

Fancy a quick tour of DragonFly BSD 6.4?

We buzz around new version of the other-other-other FOSS-xNix-that-isn't-Linux

OSes06 Jan 2023 | 40

Xen project goes for VM Hyperlaunch with version 4.17

More ways to boot, with less overhead – just what's needed in the embedded market

Virtualization16 Dec 2022 | 6

Patch Tuesday updates spark errors when creating Hyper-V VMs

Something's broken, mom! Microsoft offers workaround while trying to think up a fix

Patches14 Dec 2022 | 10

FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor

"Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines

Virtualization19 Oct 2022 | 9

Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 is here – just watch out for the proprietary Extension Pack

Latest version of FOSS hypervisor boasts support for new 3D acceleration tech and encrypted virtual machines

Virtualization11 Oct 2022 | 37

How Citrix dropped the ball on Xen ... according to Citrix

Open Source Summit How to win friends and admit how you lost them earlier?

Virtualization30 Sep 2022 | 17

VMware has clouded the SmartNIC market, not created it

Analysis Virtzilla has built itself an island. Important players aren't welcome to visit and might go elsewhere

Virtualization11 Sep 2022 | 5

Citrix adds Hypervisor Cloud to bring more and faster updates

Years after the company quit server virtualization, but may be handy for hybrid work

Virtualization05 Aug 2022 | 3

Broadcom's VMware buy got you worried? Give these 5 FOSS hypervisors a spin

Comment These suggestions are like our principles. If you don't like 'em ... we have others

Virtualization09 Jul 2022 | 48

OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2

One of the most battle-tested OSes out there hits commodity kit, but does anyone still care?

OSes10 May 2022 | 127

Microsoft patches the patch that broke VPNs, Hyper-V, and left servers in boot loops

Testing? Isn't that what users are for?

Security18 Jan 2022 | 36

Admins report Hyper-V and domain controller issues after first Patch Tuesday of 2022

Updated Start as you mean to go on, Microsoft

Security13 Jan 2022 | 29

Xen and the art of hypervisor upgrades

Version 4.16 adds first look at TPM 2.0 and better big.LITTLE support

Virtualization03 Dec 2021 |

Xen Project officially ports its hypervisor to Raspberry Pi 4

'We were about to embark on an adventure deep in the belly of the memory allocator and Linux address translation layers'

Virtualization29 Sep 2020 | 37

Xen and the art of hypervisor introspection: Bitdefender donates meditative tech to open-source virty outfit

And its lightweight virtualized RAM and CPU project, Napoca, too

Virtualization30 Jul 2020 | 9

How to break out of a hypervisor: Abuse Qemu-KVM on-Linux pre-5.3 – or VMware with an AMD driver

Pair of bug reports show how VM escapes put servers at risk

OSes18 Sep 2019 | 2

Xen 4.12 shrinks code, beefs up security, rethinks x86 support

Plus, it’s now actually two hypervisors in one

Software04 Apr 2019 |

Xen 4.11 is over a month late and its devs are mostly cool with that

Hardware hassles mean rc7 was needed, spark discussion about release cadence

Virtualization05 Jul 2018 | 1

Linux Foundation backs new ‘ACRN’ hypervisor for embedded and IoT

UPDATED Intel tosses in code because data centre hypervisors are too bloated

Edge + IoT19 Mar 2018 | 54

Xen Project says new version 4.10 has found balance between security and novelty

Splendid isolation for VMs, and a hand for ARM servers

Virtualization15 Dec 2017 | 4

Xen Project's plan after AWS goes KVM: Talk up embedded future

Update AWS changes its tune, multi-hypervisor plan is its future

Virtualization22 Nov 2017 | 21

KVM plans big boosts to storage and nested virtualization

Project maintainer Paolo Bonzini details open source hypervisor's future directions

Virtualization27 Aug 2017 | 14

QEMU qontemplates qleanup of old qode

Open source hypervisor's devs say qoding around legacy features qomplicates quality

Virtualization11 Aug 2017 | 8

Release the hounds! Xen 4.9's first RC is out and wants testing

Early June looks like being hypervisor happy time

Virtualization19 Apr 2017 |

Citrix, Bitdefender in Xen-only virtual security double-team

'Hypervisor introspection' probes guest VMs for advanced malware from splendid isolation

Virtualization10 Feb 2017 | 2

Explo-Xen! Bunker buster bug breaks out guests from hypervisor

Code dive Explo-Xen ... it rhymes with explosion

Security27 Jul 2016 | 12

Patch this braXen bug: Hypervisor hole lets guest VMs hijack hosts

Seven-year-old privilege escalation vulnerability caused by C code entanglement

Security29 Oct 2015 | 48

Devote Thursday to Xen and the art of hypervisor maintenance

Nine Xen fixes due to land, but don't panic: cloudy users have them already

On-Prem27 Oct 2015 | 2

By the numbers: The virtualisation options for private cloud hopefuls

VMware, Hyper-V… XenServer? The choice is yours

Channel05 Oct 2015 | 48

Now listen, Gartner – virtualisation and containers ARE different

Comment Magic Quadrant starts to lose its sparkle

Virtualization29 Jul 2015 | 14

Cloudy VMs leak ID details that could allow attacks, says researcher

Hot chips and other kit produce artefacts that let bad guys indentify and isolate VMs

Security23 Jul 2015 | 4

Guest-host escape bug sees Xen project urge rapid upgrade

Xen hypervisor v.4.5.1 offers over 100 fixes and improvements

Virtualization29 Jun 2015 | 1

Hypervisor indecisive? Today's contenders from yesterday's Hipsters

Virtualisation from bearded types who liked it before it was cool

On-Prem12 May 2015 | 23

The VMware, Nutanix mud wrestle is hilarious, but which one is crying with fear on the inside?

Sysadmin blog Hint: It's VMware

Virtualization08 Apr 2015 | 42

Nutanix 'working on a homebrew hypervisor', sources tell El Reg

Hyperconverged hyper-hipsters hatching ... we're not entirely sure, actually

Channel23 Mar 2015 | 8

BlackBerry's money-making QNX unit touts virty dual-OS devices

Hypervisor lets kit makers have realtime OS cake and eat it, too

Software18 Feb 2015 | 11

Xen accelerates ARM server race with version 4.5

1TB memory for guests on ARM and lots of VM-wrangling fun for admins

Virtualization16 Jan 2015 | 5

Part 3: Docker vs hypervisor in tech tussle SMACKDOWN

Comment We see you by the virty containers, VMware

Virtualization02 Dec 2014 | 32

NIST to hypervisor admins: Pro-tip, secure your systems

Hypervisor security draft open for comment

Virtualization23 Oct 2014 | 2

DRAM! Speedy software upstart PernixData's caching up fast

Caching speed upped by several orders of magnitude

Storage02 Oct 2014 | 8

Rackspace to hit GLOBAL CLOUD REBOOT button to flush out Xen security nasty

Sysadmins warned of incoming blitz

On-Prem27 Sep 2014 | 9

Cheat Win XP death: Your handy guide to keeping snubbed operating system ticking over

How to Little-known tool to save you from the XPocalypse

On-Prem10 Apr 2014 | 88

I want to play with VMs. So where do I get started?

Readers' corner Let's help this Reg reader fire up his home project

Personal Tech30 Nov 2013 |

VMware goes after biz critical apps with vSphere 5.5

VMworld 2013 Virtual SAN and networks complete grand unified theory of virtualisation - eventually

Virtualization26 Aug 2013 | 6