Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...

Since Broadcom closed its acquisition of VMware in November 2023, there has been much noise from industry pundits and the press. Some of the noise focused on licensing and pricing changes. Some of it ...

Broadcom today released a new Workstation Pro update, version 17.6.3. The new release fixes a freeze issue where Windows 11 hosts would become unresponsive. Aside from that, it also resolves a crash ...

In November 2023, Broadcom completed its $69bn acquisition of VMware, in a move to build out what the company sees as a multicloud strategy. VMware has had a number of owners. It was previously owned ...

With nearly 70% of organizations struggling with multicloud complexity, cloud chaos has become a major headache that requires an out-of-the-box approach. Given that the cloud is the new norm, HCL ...

Some users have complained that when they open the VMware Player (or VMware Workstation Player) on their Windows PC and power on the virtual machine, they are unable to access the removable USB device ...

Click image for full-sized view. Microsoft executives made their comments during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) being held this week in Los Angeles. Several of those executives were ...

During the weekend of the OpenInfra Summit Europe in Paris, a whole day was dedicated to VMware migration. Open source developers lined up throughout the day to showcase how their products could be ...

I am looking for best practices or just other ideas on how folks use ZVOLs with VMware. Historically I have created large ZVOLs, served them up over iSCSI, added them as datastores, and placed ...

If VMware Workstation failed to power off your virtual machine, the main hypervisor process might be stuck, or there might be ...