The short version: VMware stood accused of illegally using Linux code in its flagship VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. The story began in August 2006, when prominent Linux ...

VMware is launching two open source projects targeting Linux containers, continuing the vendor's efforts to show that Docker and other containers can coexist with the world of vSphere and ESXi. Of ...

In August 2006, well-known Linux developer Christopher Helwig spotted Linux source code being used illegally in the VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. Helwig, with the aid of the ...

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Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

There are many reasons that enterprises may wish to use Linux desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) broker. I outlined five of these in a recent article. Now that all major VDI ...

The Akira ransomware operation uses a Linux encryptor to encrypt VMware ESXi virtual machines in double-extortion attacks against companies worldwide. Akira first emerged in March 2023, targeting ...

VMware has supported Linux desktops running on its VDI platform since VMware Horizon 6.2. In fact, last year I wrote an article on how to use CentOS as a Linux desktop on VMware Horizon 6.2, and ...