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Xen and the art of hypervisor upgrades

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

SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware

Hypervisor extension implemented in P650 processor engine that's stalking Arm's Cortex family

02 Dec 14:00 | 10

Nutanix, VMware end legal fight over CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

Now they can get back to arguing about computers and clouds

VMware waiting for Tanzu take-off, tops guidance as customers kick tyres

Clouds and hardware types queueing up to talk now Virtzilla is free of Dell

24 Nov 07:53 | 1

VMware recalls full vSphere update over driver dramas

Interoperability issues with Ethernet controller sends vSphere 7 Update 3 back to the drawing board

22 Nov 05:58 | 6

VMware pulls vSphere update that only made things worse

vSphere 7 Update 3b was supposed to fix a high availability glitch, crashing hosts, and more

18 Nov 00:21 | 4

VMware's divorce from Dell is complete: Virtualization giant now a separate biz with $64bn valuation

Wants to be the 'Switzerland' of cloud

01 Nov 23:02 | 13

Remember, remember, the 1st of November: The day Dell VMware spun out

Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it

21 Oct 02:45 | 5

China to allow overseas investment in VPNs but Beijing keeps control of the generally discouraged tech

Foreign ownership capped at 50%

20 Oct 19:03 | 6

Google adds VM support to Anthos, admits not everyone is ready for containerised everything

VMware will love this – it works by connecting to vSphere or by managing VMs with Anthos

14 Oct 08:03 | 6

Want to deploy a new Windows VM on Microsoft Azure? Today might not be your lucky day

Users running non-Windows VMs or existing deployment not affected

13 Oct 12:05 | 7

VMware’s stack heads to Arm architecture – out on its new two-faced edge

vSphere as-a-service on the way too, along with software-defined memory

Nutanix reckons cloud is a concept, not a place – and guess who it reckons has nailed the concept?

Adds security and networking to platform, hoping you use it to repatriate apps

After eight years, SPEC delivers a new virtualisation benchmark

Jumps from single-server tests to four hosts – but only for vSphere and RHV

VMware announces tech preview of Arm hypervisor – Fusion on Apple's M1 silicon

And names a new CTO

09 Sep 06:58 | 7

PayPal buys Japanese buy-now-pay-later player Paidy for $2.7bn

It's hip to be competing with Square for space on retail counters

09 Sep 06:01 | 1

VMware shreds planned support for 'cheese grater' Mac Pro

Sorry, vAdmins, you probably don't have an excuse to buy Apple's $699 wheels

06 Sep 03:57 | 27

Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling

Yet again, Microsoft tries to make your world more Azure-centric

31 Aug 04:30 | 20

Desktop 17 for Mac: In a Parallels universe with Windows 11 on M1 silicon

Could the fastest Windows on Arm PC be made by Apple?

10 Aug 11:35 | 19

VMware starts customer testing for vSphere on network accelerators

Looks to be still figuring out what to do with it, rather than prepping product

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What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16

Can we just postpone these changes to next year?

Google sued for firing staff who claim they tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto

Civil complaint dovetails with ongoing litigation over alleged union busting

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Computers cost money. We only make them more expensive by trying to manage them ourselves

And that's bad for your customers – who else is gonna ultimately pay for it?

Nextcloud boss: You gotta fight … for your right … to 'plug into Windows and offer the exact same service'

It's the browser wars all over again – but this time it's cloud storage

Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead

Redmond fiddles with Paint while Windows burns

Three key ransomware actors changed jobs on October 18 – the same day REvil went dark

Underground industry grows in complexity and sophistication, says Santander Group researcher

Russia: It isn't just us – a bit of an old US rocket might get as close as 5.4km to the ISS

Meanwhile, Soyuz Cluedo continues: It was someone, with the drill, in the habitation module

Amazon accused of grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases to US labor agency

'Yes, we had nearly 20,000 cases last year but only 27 were directly work-related. Honestly.'

Co-Operative Bank today 'terminated' Capita's outsourcing contract years before it was due to expire

Services ops for mortgages to go back in-house, says High Street lender, can't say how many to TUPE across

Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic

Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas

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AWS adds browser access to its cloudy WorkSpaces desktops – but not for Linux

Microsoft's Windows 365 will do much the same when it launches

02 Aug 04:31 | 11

HP Inc slurps Teradici to get better at delivering remote PCs

Apparently quite a few people haven't been in the office as much lately

30 Jul 18:04 | 10

Red Hat buddies up with Nutanix to provide an escape route from VMware

'We have customers saying, help us out of this pickle here, can you possibly just support RHEL running on top of AHV?'

29 Jul 13:31 | 5

VMware's security boss suddenly bails

Tom Corn heads to Open Systems as Virtzilla hints its SmartNIC push has borne fruit

26 Jul 05:58 | 1

KVM flaw on AMD servers gave malicious VMs a route to take over the host

Vuln thankfully patched following Google Project Zero disclosure

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Will containers kill VMs? There are no winners in this debate

Reg readers couldn’t split the argument – perhaps because we kept coming back to containers inside VMs being sensible

25 Jun 12:00 | 13

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The present is virtual, the future should be too

Containers are visitors from hyperscale-land. They should respect your ways when you invite them in

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Containers make life easier for the software vendors you buy from, and that's why they'll win

Once you can only buy the apps you need as containers, it’s game over

23 Jun 12:00 | 17

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Containers have security problems and flexibility issues. VMs will make them viable

Never bet against a technology that has matured over decades

22 Jun 12:00 | 26

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VMs were a fad fit for the Great Recession. Containers’ time has finally come

No more managing operating systems and monolithic apps? Where do I sign!

21 Jun 12:00 | 58

VMware’s just given its best allies the tool to spread its Tanzu container creed

4000 service provider clouds are based on vSphere — now they’re all capable of running Kubernetes too

VMware’s ESXi-on-Arm adds support for two-socket servers, Nvidia boards

Ampere gets more love and the Raspberry Pi gets some stability tweaks for you virtual adventurers out there

Apple's macOS 12 adds improved virtualization though no sign of anything like Boot Camp on M1 silicon

Linux and macOS guests will be doable, and iGiant even appears to have added an XKCD Easter Egg

08 Jun 07:56 | 22

Hyper-V bug that could crash 'big portions of Azure cloud infrastructure': Code published

Now patched: 'A function that can be called with attacker-controlled data (which it shouldn't) and dereference twice a pointer (boom)'

02 Jun 12:14 | 11

VMware’s incoming CEO promises to change ... almost nothing

And why would he change when quarterly revenue just cracked $3bn for the first time?

28 May 05:58 | 5

Majority of Nutanix users now employ its homebrew hypervisor

Hyperconverged upstart says subscription transition remains on track and emerging products booming

BlackBerry says it’s virtualised macOS for M1 on an x86 CPU

Tweaking QEMU to handle Apple’s XNU kernel was just the beginning

20 May 06:55 | 9

With Gelsinger back at Intel, VMware picks new CEO from within, shakes up execs

vRangarajan vRaghuram is vBoss after vMotion to vTop

12 May 19:15 | 1

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

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 | 8

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 | 11

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

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

VMware staff in Silicon Valley can leave a pandemic, wildfire-ridden zone – if they're willing to accept less pay

What's that? You want to breathe clean air? Tough luck then

12 Sep 00:12 | 48

VMware gives its desktop hypervisors the power to spawn local K8s clusters

Fusion and Workstation just got rather more useful for containerised CI/CD pipelines - and also rather cheaper

21 Aug 07:38 | 7

VMware 'rebalances' with layoffs that converge hyperconverged team

Also hosed out many Datrium staff on day one

13 Aug 05:54 | 8

Can't decide which OS to run today? Why not Linux inside Windows inside macOS?

Parallels desktop upgrade enables nested virtualization and adds a dash of automation

12 Aug 10:40 | 27

VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

And expands its Horizons VDI into new clouds

07 Aug 07:38 | 2

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

30 Jul 14:01 | 9

Microsoft delivers CouchOps capability with Android TV upgrade to Remote Desktop app

Also adds Windows Virtual Desktop support and two-factor authentication

30 Jul 04:06 | 9

Brave takes step closer to sensible business model by building subscription VPN into the iOS version of its browser

Relying on ads in software designed to block ads is an uphill struggle

28 Jul 08:03 | 11

No, boss, I'm not playing Minecraft. Minecraft is where I run VMs on the desktop now

Game mod pipes VirtualBox into virtual blockputers

27 Jul 04:57 | 34

Xen upgrade brings open-source hypervisor to Azure, future AMD EPYCs, rPi 4, and even Nvidia AI development kit

Team suggests grabbing it now

VMware's flagship vSphere now in never-ending beta, if you're up for it

Go forth and test code that may never become a product if you dare

24 Jul 06:02 | 9

Dell ‘exploring’ VMware spin-off, insists they must keep their special relationship

Financial bod suggests this will go nowhere, which is just what Dell's share price is doing, dammit!

16 Jul 02:54 | 8

If you have Microsoft 365 and Windows Virtual Desktop, do you need Citrix? Apparently

Redmond's Azure-based system pals up with virty dinosaur

14 Jul 18:01 | 11

That's infotainment, that's infotainment: Android Automotive OS goes virtual with new reference platform

The screech of brakes and lamplights blinking... Google and pals tackle heterogeneous hardware subsystems

07 Jul 13:30 | 13

After three leisurely years, Citrix releases second long-term-service hypervisor

Version 8.2 supports bigger hosts, improves network security and bins old Windows versions as guests

26 Jun 06:41 | 5

Dell reportedly considers new VMware-related financial contortions

We’re not buying the idea it could buy Virtzilla, but selling a stake could work

VMware bungled bundling blurt blaring Bitfusion bringing new GPU-and-AI powers to vSphere

Bitfusion integration will require an add-on licence after all, rather than being tossed into vSphere Enterprise Plus

Google and Parallels bring Windows apps to Chromebooks, in parallel with VMware and Citrix

And then derides them as legacy apps you’ll put up with while you ascend to cloud

17 Jun 07:55 | 23

VMware delays vSphere 6.7 end of life by 11 months, because vAdmins have other things to worry about

And teases pay-by-credit-card options for its AWS service

7*7 = a simple equation for taking total control of multiple VMware-powered clouds

Ethical hackers detail how they popped vCloud Director, the tool Virtzilla offers to service providers hosting pods of private clouds

02 Jun 07:29 | 16

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Workstation has one job: running VMs. And now it can do it on Windows with Hyper-V enabled

01 Jun 07:02 | 8

VMware virtually untouched by virus, impact of private Keith Urban concert for customers uncertain

Beats the guidance it didn’t think would survive the pandemic

VMware reduces hardware footprint of its shiny new K8s-on-vSphere toys

Seven hosts might have been asking a bit much for early footling

Adobe’s Flash fade may force vCenter upgrades unless you run dodgy browsers

What? Why? This one’s all about an eleven-month window of client complications

22 Apr 08:44 | 7

XCP-ng celebrates six-figure download milestone

Now incubated as part of Xen project and has plenty of plans for hyperconverged and storage fun

VMware finally delivers its K8s and vSphere combo

And tosses in a new cloudy manager for good measure

15 Apr 09:00 | 3

VMware plans to give vSphere power to automatically patch everything running in a VM

But first, you get a taste of it with host lifecycle management, and more waiting for K8s integration

02 Apr 12:01 | 6

VMware seeks new Australian MD as Alister Dias departs for Asian role

Scores new gig promoting software-defined data centres

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