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 ...

Virtualization software maker VMware is facing a lawsuit alleging that it has been violating the GPLv2 free software license for years with its use of Linux and other source code in ESXi. Linux kernel ...

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The BlackMatter gang has joined the ranks of ransomware operations to develop a Linux encryptor that targets VMware's ESXi virtual machine platform. The enterprise is increasingly moving to virtual ...

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 ...

VMware has been criticized for not embracing open source technology with the same zeal as some of its competitors in the enterprise technology market, but a new hire suggests the vendor is serious ...

VMware will release future versions of vCenter, its flagship virtualisation-management software, in Linux versions as well as for Windows, the company's chief technology officer said on Wednesday.

VMware is warning that ESXi VMs running on Linux kernel 5.19 can have up to a 70% performance drop when Retbleed mitigations are enabled compared to the Linux kernel 5.18 release. More specifically, ...