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VMware amends bug report claiming ‘Unauthorized API’ behind critical flaw - now says it's an 'unauthorised end point'

Whatever the source, remote code execution possible on vRealize Business for Cloud – which knows a lot about your private and public platforms

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India’s massive COVID-19 wave slows VMware desktop hypervisor development

Virtzilla also admits to essentially merging Apple silicon efforts with ESXi on Arm

30 Apr 04:07 | 7

VMware is 'a few months away' from M1 release of Fusion macOS desktop hypervisor

Test code is apparently blazingly fast, but for now Parallels has VMs on Apple silicon to itself

In 2020, VMware said its remote work kit was brilliant. Now it says you need its new stuff to do it right

Improves integration and maturity, not quite the new-buzzword-worthy step-change Virtzilla wants

22 Apr 06:55 | 2

Windows comes to Apple M1 silicon as Parallels delivers native desktop hypervisor

Meanwhile, ESXi on Arm spotted booting Windows

15 Apr 04:04 | 16

Dell to spin out remaining VMware stake, cements Friends With Benefits status for at least five years

‘Market does not appreciate hardware/software combo’ says Big Mike. So virty giant gets freedom, customers are promised no change

15 Apr 01:28 | 9

AWS adds local webcam passthrough to both of its remote desktop tools

NICE DCV also gets support for Apple's M1 silicon

Xen releases a new version 4.15 after a slightly delayed development process

Teases new ‘Hyperlaunch’ tech that will allow booting of whole VM fleets

08 Apr 16:05 | 2

VMware adds support for 80-core Ampere Altra chips to its experimental Arm hypervisor

The ‘we think this is mostly for SmartNICs’ stance is looking a little thinner

06 Apr 06:59 | 2

It's been a long time coming but AWS has at last enabled an interactive serial console for de-borking VMs

Handy in an emergency, but only for Nitro instances and requires work in advance

01 Apr 18:05 | 16

VMware builds narrow one-way road to move its crown jewels towards cloudy subscriptions

...but only on clouds it controls. Multi-cloud licensing is still all sorts of fun

31 Mar 12:15 | 1

Working from home is the future, yet VMware just extended vSphere 6.5 support for a year because remote upgrades are too hard

Death of Flash means vAdmins still have work to do to stay alive even with relaxed new deadline

29 Mar 03:09 | 5

Two ransomware strains target VMware’s ESXI hypervisor through stolen vCenter creds

CARBON SPIDER and SPRITE SPIDER give you extra reasons to patch last week’s critical vCenter bug

01 Mar 00:30 | 5

Linux as root partition on Hyper-V: Microsoft submits patches for kernel 5.12

Next step in Redmond's 'complete virtualization stack with Linux'

17 Feb 15:45 | 7

VMware very strongly suggests TPM for all servers in tightened vSphere security guide

Upgrades to version 7.0 are going to require your full attention, especially if you’re fond of VGA output

11 Feb 06:57 | 7

Incoming Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger reveals he was offered board seat before sudden pitch for top job

Advice to next vCEO: Execute the plan, faster

02 Feb 07:29 | 5

Google's Git commits point to project on pared-back Android for virtualized environments

Meet MicroDroid, a base image for on-device VMs that might never see light of day

26 Jan 18:31 | 4

VMware has the strategy and culture to thrive after CEO Pat Gelsinger's exit to Intel

Virtzilla’s next boss has container-centric challenges tho nothing as hard as the task of making Intel great again

14 Jan 01:04 | 3

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Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms

Used the GitHub Codecov Action? Credentials may have been pilfered

Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline

Plus: Register.com, Network Solutions DNS down and Cloudflare has a wobble

21 nails in Exim mail server: Vulnerabilities enable 'full remote unauthenticated code execution', millions of boxes at risk

Nearly 4 million to be exact, say researchers

Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face

30% of employees reportedly walked out following sudden rule change

Fancy a piece of sordid tech history? Fleabayer is flogging the first production Spectrum Vega+ console for £1,500

Which is a lot of money for this crap

Geek's Guide to Britain

The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different

Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits

Signal banned for booking obviously targeted ads? That story's too good to be true, Facebook claims

Antisocial giant dismisses chat app rival's 'stunt' in escalating war of words

Covid Logfile II

Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways

Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic

What not to expect when you're expecting: Fertility apps may be selling intimate health secrets

Majority aren't GDPR compliant and Google Play categorises them badly, leading to lax practices

Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone

On the other hand he was fine

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VMware completes first year of Tanzu with Advanced Edition GA, announces magic tool for app modernization

Enterprise customers 'are struggling with the implementation of Kubernetes at scale' says virty cloud giant

13 Jan 19:13 | 1

Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing

What a time to be alive

13 Jan 05:58 | 47

Pizza and beer night out the window, hours trying to sort issue, then a fresh pair of eyes says 'See, the problem is...'

Cold comfort for manager at the top of the escalation chain

08 Jan 08:16 | 231

Judge rules Corellium iOS research app 'fair use' in slap to Apple

But DMCA claims about circumventing security protections still stand

04 Jan 16:03 | 5

VMware adds vim and vigor to vMotion between different vCenter servers

Improved cloud-hopping capability started as a mere Fling, make AWS an easier target

21 Dec 04:30 | 2

QEMU brings back its one-OS-a-day virtual advent calendar

Open source emulator wishes you a merry VM every day between now and Christmas

02 Dec 04:29 | 12

VMware names virtual firewalls as first workload it will offload to SmartNICs

Stateful L4 and L7 protection coming ... eventually

17 Nov 14:59 | 5

Time for a virtual love affair: ESXi-Arm Fling flung onto the web for peeps to test drive with Raspberry Pi 4, other kit

Totally not-safe-for-production 64-bit Arm hypervisor port released for evaluation, sell the SmartNIC idea, etc

07 Oct 06:31 | 6

XCP-ng starts thinking long-term, for support, UEFI, storage and more

Properly FOSS version of XenServer promises at least five years of support for next release, maybe more

02 Oct 04:56 | 1

US-China trade war worse for tech business than COVID-19, says VMware's Asia boss

Buyers aren't super-keen to jump through geopolitical hoops

01 Oct 07:30 | 6

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'

29 Sep 13:31 | 37

ESXi-on-Arm is real and VMware will use it to run networks, storage, and security on SmartNICs

Even third-party software could run there one day, managed by vSphere

29 Sep 12:15 | 5

VMware drops hints that ESXi on Arm is about to become a proper product

Also looks to have security and SaaS news in store for next week’s VMworld

24 Sep 06:31 | 4

Dying software forces changes to VMware’s vSphere Clients

Imminent demise of IE 11 and Angular JS means upgrades are incoming

21 Sep 04:27 | 18

Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches for a 'complete virtualization stack' with Linux and Hyper-V

Linux on Azure might no longer need Windows

15 Sep 12:43 | 40

Who cares what Apple's about to announce? It owes us a macOS x86 virtual appliance for non-Mac computers

Shift to Arm processors will maroon some users – and Hackintoshes are problematic

15 Sep 11:29 | 134

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