reader comments 164 Since Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes to the company’s personnel and products. In December, Broadcom began laying off thousands of employees and stopped selling perpetually licensed versions of VMware products, pushing its customers toward more stable and lucrative software ..
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reader comments 99 VMware’s new owner is ending the virtualization and cloud computing company’s partner programs. It’s unclear who or how many current partners will be able to sell VMware-related offerings after April 2024, leaving potential for tens of thousands of businesses to be disrupted. Broadcom, which closed its VMware acquisition in November, told The ..
Virtualization technology powerhouse VMware is calling urgent attention to a critical remote code execution flaw haunting its vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation products. The company said the vulnerability, tagged as CVE-2023-34048, allows a malicious hacker with network access to launch remote code execution exploits. A critical-severity advisory from VMware described the bug as an ..
Enlarge / You can now use Touch ID to log in to your Windows virtual machine. reader comments 34 with It’s an annual tradition to see an update to Mac virtualization software Parallels Desktop a few weeks before the next major macOS release. Like clockwork, we’ve come to that time again: Parallels Desktop 19 is ..
Enlarge / The latest Microsoft Store version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux allows for graphical apps, systemd support, multiple distributions, and a lot of questions about whether you have three different options enabled on your Windows 10 system. Kevin Purdy reader comments 91 with 0 posters participating Share this story The Windows Subsystem for ..
Enlarge / Unsurprisingly, getting a standard amd64-based Linux image installed as a virtual machine on an ARM-based Mac results in sadness. Kevin Purdy reader comments 43 with 33 posters participating, including story author Share this story Nearly four years after its last major release, VirtualBox 7.0 arrives with a… host of new features. Chief among ..
Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty Images reader comments 23 with 19 posters participating Share this story For decades, virtualization software has offered a way to vastly multiply computers’ efficiency, hosting entire collections of computers as “virtual machines” on just one physical machine. And for almost as long, security researchers have warned about the potential dark side ..
Enlarge / A marketing splash image for Parallels Desktop 18, from the company’s YouTube video about the release. reader comments 41 with 25 posters participating Share this story Mac-based virtualization software Parallels launched a new version today. As with most updates to the suite, Parallels Desktop 18 adds support for new Apple hardware features, improves ..
Enlarge / Virtualizing macOS versions like the Ventura beta is a good way to experiment without blowing away your main OS install. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 48 with 40 posters participating, including story author Share this story One of the coolest power-user Mac features of the Apple Silicon era is Apple’s Virtualization framework. Normally the ..
reader comments 276 with 158 posters participating, including story author Share this story Microsoft claims that “the new Windows is available on the widest array of devices,” but the Internet had a minor panic attack when requirements were outlined yesterday. Our daily-driver Windows 10 VM didn’t have TPM support, as shown in this screenshot of ..