virtualization Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations
virtualization OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime
Virtualization Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back
Virtualization VMware quietly debuts Arm hypervisor tech preview Supports Nvidia Grace and Ampere processors
Virtualization Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure Analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration
Virtualization Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything
Virtualization Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud
PaaS + IaaS Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor GSA trumpets 64% discounts on Broadcom's VMware portfolio, core vSphere platform mysteriously absent from agreement
Virtualization Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people
Virtualization Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too
Virtualization Open source Cloud Hypervisor adds (maybe futile) no-AI-code policy Virtualization tool for hyperscalers now scales to 8,192 vCPUs
Virtualization Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4 Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update
Virtualization Citrix signals return to the mainstream hypervisor market with a product it says isn’t quite ready for the job Cites ‘aggressive licensing changes’ from rivals, but like Broadcom only sells bundles
Virtualization Xen Project delivers solid hypervisor update and keeps working on RISC-V port While we’re talking open source V12N, meet SEAPATH: A new hypervisor for electricity grids backed by Red Hat
Virtualization Xen hypervisor quadruples its possible core count for version 4.19 Pesky test infrastructure woes seem to be solved, too
VMware Explore Desktop hypervisors are not dead: Oracle preps major VirtualBox update Solaris support persists and support for Armed Macs improves
Virtualization Xen Project in a pickle as colo provider housing test platform closes Admits it may struggle to fund and implement replacement infrastructure
VMware Explore How to escape VMware's pricey clutches with Virt-v2v Or any other hypervisors that might hypothetically be acquired or suddenly get more costly
Virtualization Broadcom’s VMware strategy looks ever more shaky - and less relevant Yes, it’s that darned AI again
Virtualization It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer Computershare CTO says he got a bill 15 times his previous quote
Storage Nutanix starts thinking outside the VM – with extra help from Dell Brings its storage stack to AWS's EKS but still has time to improve its hypervisor
Virtualization VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use A nice gesture among the sh!tshow of Broadcom's acquisition
Virtualization XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs
Virtualization SoftIron rolls its own server virt stack to join the 'let's get VMware' crowd Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful
Virtualization VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with KVM conversion tool Also urges customers to remove some of its software due to a critical vulnerability
Channel As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix A lot of IT depts can't wait to get past their ESX addiction
Virtualization Xen Project improves the art of virtual machine maintenance with annual hypervisor release Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs
Virtualization South Korea approves Broadcom's VMware buy Virtzilla's final releases as an indepdent company might be biggish upgrades to its desktop hypervisors
Virtualization UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities Fancy running Windows, Linux and Classic MacOS on your modern x86-64 or Arm64 Mac? Walk this way
Virtualization XenServer teases free VMware migration package Citrix's virtualization spin out goes a bit Musky by revealing its own X-centric logo
Virtualization VMware turns 25 today: Is it a mature professional or headed back to Mom's house? Beat Microsoft. Set agendas. Became essential. Hiked prices. Now we wait for Broadcom's reign
Virtualization Xen hypervisor port to RISC-V moving – slowly, but moving Far from ready, but developer thinks it's helping the whole codebase
OSes Fancy a quick tour of DragonFly BSD 6.4? We buzz around new version of the other-other-other FOSS-xNix-that-isn't-Linux
Virtualization 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
Patches Patch Tuesday updates spark errors when creating Hyper-V VMs Something's broken, mom! Microsoft offers workaround while trying to think up a fix
Virtualization FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor "Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines
Virtualization 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
Virtualization How Citrix dropped the ball on Xen ... according to Citrix How to win friends and admit how you lost them earlier?
Virtualization VMware has clouded the SmartNIC market, not created it Virtzilla has built itself an island. Important players aren't welcome to visit and might go elsewhere
Virtualization Citrix adds Hypervisor Cloud to bring more and faster updates Years after the company quit server virtualization, but may be handy for hybrid work
Virtualization Broadcom's VMware buy got you worried? Give these 5 FOSS hypervisors a spin These suggestions are like our principles. If you don't like 'em ... we have others
OSes OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2 One of the most battle-tested OSes out there hits commodity kit, but does anyone still care?
Security Microsoft patches the patch that broke VPNs, Hyper-V, and left servers in boot loops Testing? Isn't that what users are for?
Security Admins report Hyper-V and domain controller issues after first Patch Tuesday of 2022 Start as you mean to go on, Microsoft
Virtualization Xen and the art of hypervisor upgrades Version 4.16 adds first look at TPM 2.0 and better big.LITTLE support
Virtualization 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'
Virtualization 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
OSes How to break out of a hypervisor: Abuse Qemu-KVM on-Linux pre-5.3 – or VMware with an AMD driver Pair of bug reports show how VM escapes put servers at risk
Software Xen 4.12 shrinks code, beefs up security, rethinks x86 support Plus, it’s now actually two hypervisors in one
Virtualization Xen 4.11 is over a month late and its devs are mostly cool with that Hardware hassles mean rc7 was needed, spark discussion about release cadence
Edge + IoT Linux Foundation backs new ‘ACRN’ hypervisor for embedded and IoT Intel tosses in code because data centre hypervisors are too bloated
Virtualization Xen Project says new version 4.10 has found balance between security and novelty Splendid isolation for VMs, and a hand for ARM servers
Virtualization Xen Project's plan after AWS goes KVM: Talk up embedded future AWS changes its tune, multi-hypervisor plan is its future
Virtualization KVM plans big boosts to storage and nested virtualization Project maintainer Paolo Bonzini details open source hypervisor's future directions
Virtualization QEMU qontemplates qleanup of old qode Open source hypervisor's devs say qoding around legacy features qomplicates quality
Virtualization Release the hounds! Xen 4.9's first RC is out and wants testing Early June looks like being hypervisor happy time
Virtualization Citrix, Bitdefender in Xen-only virtual security double-team 'Hypervisor introspection' probes guest VMs for advanced malware from splendid isolation
Security Explo-Xen! Bunker buster bug breaks out guests from hypervisor Explo-Xen ... it rhymes with explosion
Security Patch this braXen bug: Hypervisor hole lets guest VMs hijack hosts Seven-year-old privilege escalation vulnerability caused by C code entanglement
On-Prem Devote Thursday to Xen and the art of hypervisor maintenance Nine Xen fixes due to land, but don't panic: cloudy users have them already
Channel By the numbers: The virtualisation options for private cloud hopefuls VMware, Hyper-V… XenServer? The choice is yours
Virtualization Now listen, Gartner – virtualisation and containers ARE different Magic Quadrant starts to lose its sparkle
Security Cloudy VMs leak ID details that could allow attacks, says researcher Hot chips and other kit produce artefacts that let bad guys indentify and isolate VMs
Virtualization Guest-host escape bug sees Xen project urge rapid upgrade Xen hypervisor v.4.5.1 offers over 100 fixes and improvements
On-Prem Hypervisor indecisive? Today's contenders from yesterday's Hipsters Virtualisation from bearded types who liked it before it was cool
Virtualization The VMware, Nutanix mud wrestle is hilarious, but which one is crying with fear on the inside? Hint: It's VMware
Channel Nutanix 'working on a homebrew hypervisor', sources tell El Reg Hyperconverged hyper-hipsters hatching ... we're not entirely sure, actually
Software BlackBerry's money-making QNX unit touts virty dual-OS devices Hypervisor lets kit makers have realtime OS cake and eat it, too
Virtualization Xen accelerates ARM server race with version 4.5 1TB memory for guests on ARM and lots of VM-wrangling fun for admins
Virtualization Part 3: Docker vs hypervisor in tech tussle SMACKDOWN We see you by the virty containers, VMware
Virtualization NIST to hypervisor admins: Pro-tip, secure your systems Hypervisor security draft open for comment
Storage DRAM! Speedy software upstart PernixData's caching up fast Caching speed upped by several orders of magnitude
On-Prem Rackspace to hit GLOBAL CLOUD REBOOT button to flush out Xen security nasty Sysadmins warned of incoming blitz
On-Prem Cheat Win XP death: Your handy guide to keeping snubbed operating system ticking over Little-known tool to save you from the XPocalypse
Personal Tech I want to play with VMs. So where do I get started? Let's help this Reg reader fire up his home project
Virtualization VMware goes after biz critical apps with vSphere 5.5 Virtual SAN and networks complete grand unified theory of virtualisation - eventually
SaaS Citrix weaves together XenClient hypervisor and XenDesktop VDI stack Adds personal disk for semi-custom virty PCs
Virtualization Virtual brownfields: Microsoft's push to woo the VMware masses Are the tools up to snuff? Our man Trevor Pott investigates
Virtualization Citrix open sources XenServer hypervisor to chase clouds Forget the complexity: One edition, pay or don't as you please
Systems ScaleMP: Use RAM plus vSMP, not flash, to boost server performance Partners with Big Blue, chases SGI UV2 shared memory systems
OSes IBM runs OLTP benchmark atop KVM hypervisor To heck with that TPC-VMS server virtualization spec
SaaS Ravello uncloaks with $26m, fires cloud hypervisor into the heavens Aims high to be the VMware of fully virtualized fluffy infrastructure
Networks NEC uncloaks freebie virtual switch for Hyper-V The OpenFlow bait gets a Windows Server 2012 switch
Virtualization HotLink punts freebie SuperVisor virty control freak Update adds EC2, ESXi 5.1, and vCloud hooks
Systems Stratus: Virtualization drives demand for ftServers Mirror, mirror in the glass house, who is the fairest hypervisor of all?
Databases TPC kicks out quick-and-dirty virty server test Good for calculating hypervisor overhead – maybe
Virtualization Red Hat marries RHEV 3.1 hypervisor to Gluster storage New CloudForms control freak and virty bundles for cloud builders
Networks Riverbed plunks ESXi hypervisor in Steelhead WAN optimizers Gooses performance with flash, optimizes virty desktops
Virtualization Oracle tunes up VirtualBox hypervisor for Windows 8 Punts new Enterprise Manager 12c control freak
Storage Speaking in Tech: Lawyers are the enemy of the cloud Plus: VMware still hard at work on the Death Star
