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XenServer, split from Citrix, promises per-socket prices 'unlike certain other hypervisors'

Yeah, we know: Cost alone won't lead to success. But it may be hiring, unlike certain other tech giants

Virtualization23 Jan 2023 | 9

EU probes Broadcom/VMware deal over impact on hardware, not price hikes or cloudy concerns

+COMMENT Suggests VMware might not allow NICs and HBAs other than Broadcom’s, which would be a bizarre act

Virtualization21 Dec 2022 |

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

VMware adds subscription version of basic vSphere for server consolidation

Why, when standard version costs a mere $1,349? Cloudy multi-premises management, perhaps

Virtualization15 Dec 2022 | 8

VMware loses three top execs who owned growth products

'Time of transition' – cough, Broadcom – offered as reason cloud, security, and networking bosses bailed

Virtualization13 Dec 2022 | 9

Broadcom braced for full EU investigation into $61B VMware buyout

Company still insists takeover of virtualization giant is going through by November '23

Virtualization12 Dec 2022 | 7

Broadcom tries to quash VMware price rise rumors as CEO promises they won't

Hock Tan says hiring engineers is his strategy … but still won't explain plan for massive rapid profit increase

Virtualization01 Dec 2022 | 4

Windows Subsystem for Linux now packaged as a Microsoft Store app

Nothing says 'We love open source and want it to be available in Windows' like only delivering updates from a closed digital tat bazaar

Virtualization23 Nov 2022 | 51

UK authorities open preliminary probe into Broadcom's VMware acquisition

Hard to see multi-cloud management, hypervisors, or enterprise security triggering public interest test to can the deal

Virtualization22 Nov 2022 | 3

VMware refreshes desktop hypervisors, adds Apple Silicon support

Partial VM encryption enables the virtual TPMs Windows 11 guests can't live without

Virtualization21 Nov 2022 | 4

Broadcom looks for EU approval of VMware takeover

If antitrust regulators aren't happy, the deal won't go through

Virtualization16 Nov 2022 | 8

WTF is Sovereign SaaS? VMware’s way to satisfy pesky regulators your cloud is local

Reveals closer ties to Equinix and Wipro as Broadcom finds new ways to promise peace

Virtualization08 Nov 2022 | 1

VMware wants to help fund your next cloud migration

Totally not about trying to keep customers in the ecosystem. Okay, maybe a lot about that

Virtualization02 Nov 2022 |

Broadcom CEO says hiking VMware prices is not his strategy

Commits to containerized Tanzu portfolio too – perhaps heading off chatter it could be sold

Virtualization27 Oct 2022 | 6

Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time

First Look Works well, but selection of available apps is meagre

Virtualization21 Oct 2022 | 46

FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor

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

Virtualization19 Oct 2022 | 9

AWS targets desktop virtualization rigs with lift and shift to cloudy DaaS

Citrix can do this too. Hyperconverged infrastructure's salad days serving virtual PCs might be ending

Virtualization18 Oct 2022 | 3

Broadcom to spin VMware takeover as creating 'more competition' in cloud

Chip giant flutters eyelashes at Europe in hope of early acqusition

Virtualization17 Oct 2022 | 8

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

VMware acknowledges the wisdom of never buying version 1.0 of a product

To get you upgrading faster, vSphere will now be released for Initial Availability before reaching General Availability

Virtualization10 Oct 2022 | 5

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User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway

On-Call Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right

Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime

As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar

Smart ovens do really dumb stuff to check for Wi-Fi

Pinging search services in the US, China, Russia perhaps not ideal for privacy

What is Google doing with its open source teams?

Opinion Nothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard

Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000

And that, kids, is why we don't play the Emergency Alert System tone on TV

Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week

The irony, it burns

Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains

DIY store didn't get 'valid consent,' says Canada's regulator

US ban on China chip exports rebounds, causes 2,700 job losses

California-based chipmaking kit-maker Lam hit by DRAM decline, inability to export to Middle Kingdom

Memory safety is the new black, fashionable and fit for any occasion

Calls to avoid C/C++ and embrace Rust grow louder

Broadcom's $61b VMWare merger faces another hurdle: UK's competition watchdog

Nobody expects the British Inquisition. (Except everybody. Everybody expected it)

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Amazon lets you rent Ubuntu Pro. Yes, it's Linux on the virtual desktop

Insert your Year of Linux joke here, we dare you

Virtualization30 Sep 2022 | 7

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 teases replacement for so-insecure-it-was-retired P2V migration tool

vCenter Converter will make a comeback

Virtualization14 Sep 2022 | 10

SEC charges VMware with hiding slowing sales from investors

Virtualization giant pays $8m to settle claims it pushed revenue into later quarter... without admitting liability

Virtualization13 Sep 2022 | 10

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

Forrester rates virtual machine infrastructure ‘stale or risky’

So are ITSM tools that can’t spread, data tools, and private 5G. But outsourcing is cool again

Virtualization08 Sep 2022 | 12

Microsoft extends Teams into VMware and Citrix VDI

Users will now be able to blur or replace their backgrounds during video meetings or calls

Virtualization02 Sep 2022 | 6

VMware’s Amazonian incarnation drops requirement to run on dedicated hosts

VMware Explore vSphere users can start smaller without paying cluster-bucks

Virtualization02 Sep 2022 | 5

VMware customers optimistically wait for Broadcom’s impact

VMware Explore As vCEO Raghu Raghuram tells us Big B won’t treat VMware like its other slash and burn acquisitions

Virtualization31 Aug 2022 | 2

VMware CEO bats away Broadcom concerns – it’s just ‘the next transition’

VMware Explore And so is vSphere for Arm: CEO tells Reg he’s ‘beating up’ the exec responsible for the port

Virtualization30 Aug 2022 | 5

VMware reckons 20% of server cores can come back to work thanks to vSphere 8 and SmartNICs

VMware Explore Re-composes automation and management tools as ‘Aria’, reduces cloud hardware requirements, tries to reinvent security ... again

Virtualization30 Aug 2022 | 1

VMware offers cloudy upgrade lifeline to legacy vCenter users

But warns 'upcoming major release of vSphere' will break some plugins

Virtualization12 Aug 2022 | 9

Parallels increases prices with Desktop version 18

Running Windows apps on your M1 Mac just got a bit more expensive

Virtualization09 Aug 2022 | 24

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

Windows 11 comes to AWS EC2 as a VM import option

UEFI is sorted, but BYO licenses are required

Virtualization03 Aug 2022 |

Canonical adds instance tweaking to Multipass, Confidential VMs to Azure

The days of destroying and rebuilding to add another CPU core are numbered

Virtualization01 Aug 2022 |

VMware’s subscriptions start at 16 cores, prices won't be made public

Prepaid one-, three-, or five-year terms preferred for big bundles

Virtualization29 Jul 2022 | 29

VMware delivers a load of updates for its Amazonian incarnation

Windows 11 debuts, as service extends to Hong Kong

Virtualization28 Jul 2022 | 3

Teradici re-emerges as 'HP Anyware' to replace ZCentral Remote Boost

Expect it to be bundled into managed desktop services from HP Inc.

Virtualization26 Jul 2022 | 2

VMware starts tracking use of experimental Arm hypervisor

By watching how you use it, Virtzilla might figure out how to sell it

Virtualization21 Jul 2022 |

Microsoft lures SMBs to Cloudy PCs by connecting them to Xbox accounts

Windows as a service is getting more mature and manageable

Virtualization20 Jul 2022 | 8

VMware president sees some 'anxiety' at customers who've seen Broadcom at work

Virtzilla also thinks SmartNICs can ease your security concerns

Virtualization19 Jul 2022 | 19

Mastermind of Broadcom’s VMware buy is out, CEO Tan to take over software

Updated Chip giant takes an add Hock approach

Virtualization11 Jul 2022 | 4

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 | 47

Broadcom takeover deal for VMware faces no rival bids

Updated Lack of alternative offers means sale may go ahead with expected completion in fiscal 2023

Virtualization06 Jul 2022 | 11

Ditching VMware over the Broadcom buy? Here are some of your options

Opinion What's your contingency plan?

Virtualization28 Jun 2022 | 27

VMware reveals vSphere-as-a-service – but not the price

Cloudy vSphere+ can manage multiple on-prem environments but not VMw-powered public clouds … for now

Virtualization28 Jun 2022 | 5

Cloudflare menaces virtual desktops with isolated browser access to internal networks

Gives cloudy email a kicking, too – but VDI should be safe in its bastions

Virtualization27 Jun 2022 | 3

Broadcom sketches out VMware ambitions that stretch from mainframe to cloud

Engineers, sales teams told to stick around, customers promised more 'choice' – to buy from Symantec or CA

Virtualization23 Jun 2022 | 11

Xen patches three bugs that allow guest-host takeover

Paravirtualized guests on old x86s are the risk – just the sort of thing that gets forgotten

Virtualization14 Jun 2022 | 3

VMware customers fear Broadcom acquisition will stall innovation, increase cost

Gartner advises renegotiating subscriptions now to avoid ‘dramatic’ and ‘extraordinary’ price rises

Virtualization09 Jun 2022 | 21

VMware customers have watched Broadcom's acquisitions and don't like what they see

It's not hard to find unpleasant precedents for what might happen to Virtzilla

Virtualization31 May 2022 | 39

Broadcom's stated strategy ignores most VMware customers

Focuses on 600 users, lets smaller outfits slide, trims R&D spend, slashes sales expenses

Virtualization30 May 2022 | 35

Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware

Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming

Virtualization27 May 2022 | 45

Confirmed: Broadcom, VMware agree to $61b merger

Unless anyone out there can make a better offer. Oh, Elon?

Virtualization26 May 2022 | 12

VMware claims 'bare-metal' performance on virtualized GPUs

Is... is that why Broadcom wants to buy it?

Virtualization24 May 2022 | 1

Broadcom to buy VMware 'on Thursday for $60 billion'

Think we speak for everyone when we say: Seriously, what the f...?

Virtualization24 May 2022 | 23

Broadcom in talks to buy VMware: multiple reports

Michael Dell could be the key to any deal

Virtualization23 May 2022 | 8

Arm, Microsoft at pains to say this CPU arch can be trusted with real server work

It should just run like x86, pair basically stress

Virtualization17 May 2022 | 11

VMware walks back ban on booting vSphere from SD cards or thumb drives

Updated But in future won't certify servers that allow booting from removable media

Virtualization29 Apr 2022 | 14

VMware says server sprawl is back, and SmartNICs are the solution

More details emerge about 'Project Monterey' and its role driving infrastructure workloads into hybrid clouds

Virtualization27 Apr 2022 | 3

VMware reveals a swarm of serious bugs – some critical

Meanwhile changes the name of its major customer-facing event... probably a coincidence

Virtualization07 Apr 2022 | 6

Alibaba Cloud lets its tiny desktop-as-a-service client leave China

Singapore-only release means this is not a major move on the DaaS or VDI markets

Virtualization22 Mar 2022 |

Containers may be more effective than VMs for hybrid apps – Gartner

Sure, licensing is a mess. Packaging, distribution in good shape, tho

Virtualization22 Mar 2022 | 7

VMware offers hardware compatibility list for home labs

Crowdsourced and unofficial info for when you want to run ESXi for fun ... or when official rigs aren't right

Virtualization09 Mar 2022 | 5

Verizon expands network-as-a-service with VMware SD-WAN

MWC If enterprise apps are going into the cloud, someone needs to provide the extra plumbing

Virtualization28 Feb 2022 |

VMware patches critical guest-to-host vulnerabilities

Time to fix code like it's 2020

Virtualization17 Feb 2022 | 3

VMware pulls physical to virtual conversion tool, adds VM to container conversion tool

Physical to virtual conversion tool will be back once modernised, but this is still quite a moment

Virtualization07 Feb 2022 | 33

VMware fixes vSphere release it pulled, sorts out Log4j while it's at it

Driver drama is done, new dev practices should prevent repeats, says Virtzilla

Virtualization28 Jan 2022 | 2

Parallels: Purveyors of decent virtualization software... and occasionally iffy checksums

La la la, we're not listening

Virtualization25 Jan 2022 | 11

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 |

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

Virtualization02 Dec 2021 | 10

Nutanix, VMware end legal fight over CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

Now they can get back to arguing about computers and clouds

Virtualization02 Dec 2021 |

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

Virtualization24 Nov 2021 | 1

VMware recalls full vSphere update over driver dramas

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

Virtualization22 Nov 2021 | 5

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

Virtualization18 Nov 2021 | 4

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

Wants to be the 'Switzerland' of cloud

Virtualization01 Nov 2021 | 13

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

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

Virtualization21 Oct 2021 | 5

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

Foreign ownership capped at 50%

Virtualization20 Oct 2021 | 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

Virtualization14 Oct 2021 | 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

Virtualization13 Oct 2021 | 7

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

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

Virtualization05 Oct 2021 |

Nutanix says 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

Virtualization22 Sep 2021 |

After eight years, SPEC delivers a new virtualisation benchmark

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

Virtualization17 Sep 2021 |

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

And names a new CTO

Virtualization09 Sep 2021 | 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

Virtualization09 Sep 2021 | 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

Virtualization06 Sep 2021 | 27

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

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

Virtualization31 Aug 2021 | 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?

Virtualization10 Aug 2021 | 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

Virtualization04 Aug 2021 |

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

Virtualization02 Aug 2021 | 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

Virtualization30 Jul 2021 | 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?'

Virtualization29 Jul 2021 | 5

VMware's security boss suddenly bails

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

Virtualization26 Jul 2021 | 1

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

Updated Vuln thankfully patched following Google Project Zero disclosure

Virtualization30 Jun 2021 |

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

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

Virtualization25 Jun 2021 | 13

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

Virtualization18 Jun 2021 |

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

Virtualization16 Jun 2021 |

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

Virtualization08 Jun 2021 | 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)'

Virtualization02 Jun 2021 | 11

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