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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

Virtualization07 Oct 2020 | 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

Virtualization02 Oct 2020 | 1

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

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

Virtualization01 Oct 2020 | 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'

Virtualization29 Sep 2020 | 37

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

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

Virtualization29 Sep 2020 | 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

Virtualization24 Sep 2020 | 4

Dying software forces changes to VMware’s vSphere Clients

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

Virtualization21 Sep 2020 | 18

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

Linux on Azure might no longer need Windows

OSes15 Sep 2020 | 40

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

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

OSes15 Sep 2020 | 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

Virtualization12 Sep 2020 | 48

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

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

Also adds Windows Virtual Desktop support and two-factor authentication

Virtualization30 Jul 2020 | 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

Virtualization28 Jul 2020 | 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

Virtualization27 Jul 2020 | 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

Virtualization24 Jul 2020 |

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

Virtualization24 Jul 2020 | 9

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

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

Virtualization16 Jul 2020 | 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

Virtualization14 Jul 2020 | 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

Virtualization07 Jul 2020 | 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

Virtualization26 Jun 2020 | 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

Virtualization24 Jun 2020 |

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

Virtualization23 Jun 2020 |

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

Virtualization17 Jun 2020 | 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

Virtualization05 Jun 2020 |

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

Virtualization02 Jun 2020 | 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

Virtualization01 Jun 2020 | 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

Virtualization29 May 2020 |

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

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

Virtualization26 May 2020 |

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

Virtualization22 Apr 2020 | 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

Virtualization20 Apr 2020 |

VMware finally delivers its K8s and vSphere combo

And tosses in a new cloudy manager for good measure

Virtualization15 Apr 2020 | 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

Virtualization02 Apr 2020 | 6

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

Scores new gig promoting software-defined data centres

Virtualization02 Apr 2020 |

Dell, VMware withdraw fiscal 2021 guidance amid humming global supply chain and remote work boom

Updated You can't seriously be asking why. Do you live under a rock? The reason is coronavirus

Virtualization27 Mar 2020 | 2

Still hoping to run VMware's ESXi on Arm any time soon? Don't hold your breath – no rush and no commitments

Xen, KVM muscling in, meanwhile

Virtualization12 Mar 2020 | 14

Corporate VPN huffing and puffing while everyone works from home over COVID-19? You're not alone, admins

Microsoft and others take steps to handle remote staffer crunch

Virtualization11 Mar 2020 | 68

Virtualization juggernaut VMware hits the CPU turbo button for licensing costs

Loving all those cores? You probably won't love the price

Virtualization04 Feb 2020 | 37

VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff

Hundreds or more said to be chopped worldwide

Virtualization28 Jan 2020 | 12

Why so glum, VMware? It's Friday. Oh, is it this $235m patent infringement invoice from Densify? Too bad, so sad

Updated Virtualization giant hit with massive tech blueprint verdict

Virtualization24 Jan 2020 | 11

VMware has a Pivotal moment in its quest to be 'leading enabler of Kubernetes'

Shopping spree means all roads lead to K8s for Virtzilla

Virtualization02 Jan 2020 | 2

Oh noes! Half the NHS runs on Windows 7! Thankfully, here's Citrix with a virty vaccine

Except it looks like all the trusts already have plans

OSes10 Dec 2019 | 58

Think your VMware snapshots are all good? Guess again if you're on Windows Server 2019

App-quiesced saves fail, workaround is to shrug it off

OSes16 Oct 2019 | 50

Try to contain yourselves: Google Cloud lights Spark for Kubernetes

Dataproc service will run Apache Spark on K8s, now in alpha

Virtualization10 Sep 2019 |

Pat Gelsinger vows to upgrade VMware's once 'bad' open-source rep to the 'very' best by 2021

VMworld CEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry

Virtualization27 Aug 2019 | 13

Imagine Siri as your IT help desk. Too scary? OK, imagine PAYG on-prem IT. Oh, too much? How about everything on Kubernetes?

VMworld Wait, come back. Stop screaming. We're only reading out VMware's news

Virtualization26 Aug 2019 | 3

A Pivotal moment for VMware: Software biz gobbled up along with Carbon Black for $5bn

Meanwhile, Salesforce sees profits fall

Virtualization23 Aug 2019 | 7

Talk about keeping it in the family: Dell-owned Pivotal shares rocket after Dell-owned VMware mulls gobbling it up

Stock price back up to, er, just below IPO level

Virtualization15 Aug 2019 | 4

Microsoft puts freshly borged FSLogix to work speeding up Office 365

It's a virtualized world and everyone's welcome. Even Citrix and VMware

Virtualization02 Jul 2019 | 1

Virty boys Parallels bring machine learning, Windows Server 2019 support to RAS VDI line

AI know what you did last summer

Virtualization18 Jun 2019 |

You'll always need VMs says, surprise, VMware: Run on any cloud you like and get portability

Yep, and two sets of bills

Virtualization14 Jun 2019 | 10

VMware now officially supported on Azure. We repeat: VMware now supported on Azure

Dell World 'Member when Microsoft tried this in 2017? It didn’t go well...

Virtualization01 May 2019 | 21

An offer you Kata refuse: OSF accepts virty container wizards as 'part of the family'

Making it the first new top-level project since 2012

Virtualization10 Apr 2019 | 8

Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass

Don't need full-fat GUI? WSL doesn't cut it? Canonical has just the ticket

OSes22 Jan 2019 | 45

If you don't like apps touching, Qubes 4.0.1 is a good place to jump in

Virty OS's latest version rolls up the best bits of 2018

Virtualization11 Jan 2019 | 1

Corel – yeah, as in CorelDraw – looks in its Xmas stocking and discovers... Parallels

Art software maker snaps up virtualization tool for people who hate Qemu, Oracle VirtualBox that much

Virtualization21 Dec 2018 | 46

Red Hat fiddles with OpenShift Dedicated and lures customers with price cuts

Bring your own AWS. Or let us take care of everything. For a fee

Virtualization07 Dec 2018 |

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

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

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

Xen Project officially ports its hypervisor to Raspberry Pi 4

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

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

Dying software forces changes to VMware’s vSphere Clients

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

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

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

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

VMware 'rebalances' with layoffs that converge hyperconverged team

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dell reportedly considers new VMware-related financial contortions

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

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

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

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

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

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

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

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

XCP-ng celebrates six-figure download milestone

VMware finally delivers its K8s and vSphere combo

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

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

Dell, VMware withdraw fiscal 2021 guidance amid humming global supply chain and remote work boom

Still hoping to run VMware's ESXi on Arm any time soon? Don't hold your breath – no rush and no commitments

Corporate VPN huffing and puffing while everyone works from home over COVID-19? You're not alone, admins

Virtualization juggernaut VMware hits the CPU turbo button for licensing costs

VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff

Why so glum, VMware? It's Friday. Oh, is it this $235m patent infringement invoice from Densify? Too bad, so sad

VMware has a Pivotal moment in its quest to be 'leading enabler of Kubernetes'

Oh noes! Half the NHS runs on Windows 7! Thankfully, here's Citrix with a virty vaccine

Think your VMware snapshots are all good? Guess again if you're on Windows Server 2019

Try to contain yourselves: Google Cloud lights Spark for Kubernetes

Pat Gelsinger vows to upgrade VMware's once 'bad' open-source rep to the 'very' best by 2021

Imagine Siri as your IT help desk. Too scary? OK, imagine PAYG on-prem IT. Oh, too much? How about everything on Kubernetes?

A Pivotal moment for VMware: Software biz gobbled up along with Carbon Black for $5bn

Talk about keeping it in the family: Dell-owned Pivotal shares rocket after Dell-owned VMware mulls gobbling it up

Microsoft puts freshly borged FSLogix to work speeding up Office 365

Virty boys Parallels bring machine learning, Windows Server 2019 support to RAS VDI line

You'll always need VMs says, surprise, VMware: Run on any cloud you like and get portability

VMware now officially supported on Azure. We repeat: VMware now supported on Azure

An offer you Kata refuse: OSF accepts virty container wizards as 'part of the family'

Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass

If you don't like apps touching, Qubes 4.0.1 is a good place to jump in

Corel – yeah, as in CorelDraw – looks in its Xmas stocking and discovers... Parallels

Red Hat fiddles with OpenShift Dedicated and lures customers with price cuts

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