VMware Urges Immediate Patching for Critical Hypervisor Escape Vulnerabilities

VMware Urges Immediate Patching for Critical Hypervisor Escape Vulnerabilities

VMware, a leading innovator in enterprise software, has issued an urgent advisory for customers to patch critical vulnerabilities across its product suite, including ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation. A constellation of four flaws, with two rated at a severe 9.3 out of 10, threatens the core security feature of VMware products, enabling attackers to … Read more

Broadcom VMware Ends Free VMware vSphere Hypervisor Closing an Era

Broadcom VMware Ends Free VMware vSphere Hypervisor Closing an Era

VMware VSphere Hypervisor Free Edition End Broadcom’s VMware division took a big step today, ending its free VMware vSphere Hypervisor. This is one of those announcements that we were expecting after we covered VMware End of Availability on Many VMware vSphere Editions and VMware Updates its EOA Plan Providing Guidance for Some Subscription Transition, but it is … Read more

Broadcom terminates VMware’s free ESXi hypervisor

Broadcom terminates VMware’s free ESXi hypervisor

Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor. News of the change came in a Monday knowledge base article that revealed the tool was removed from VMware.com and offered the following explanation for the change: The free cut of ESXi was only able to run on limited number of cores, addressed a modest … Read more