XDA Developers on MSN

Who needs Proxmox templates? I built my own base image instead

Proxmox VE 9.1 added yet another way of making your own images by pulling them directly from your OCI registry of choice.
GitHub

Creating a penetration testing home lab environment to mess around with tools and break stuff

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. (Very old project, just updating the writeup) For some context, I hope to run a vulnerable web server in a ...
Ars Technica

Broadcom’s prohibitive VMware prices create a learning “barrier,” IT pro says

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced kids to stay home, educators flocked to VMware, and thousands of school districts adopted virtualization. The technology became a solution for distance learning ...
TechSpot

Windows Server users have a new tool to convert VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V instances

Cloudy Tactics: In another effort to steer Windows customers toward Azure, Microsoft is offering a new tool that converts virtual machines between two formats. The goal is to help organizations stay ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit VMware ESXi, Microsoft SharePoint zero-days at Pwn2Own

During the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, competitors earned $435,000 after exploiting zero-day bugs in multiple products, including Microsoft SharePoint, VMware ESXi, Oracle VirtualBox, Red Hat ...
PC World

You want to run a virtual PC? Know what hardware you’ll need

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...
CSOonline

VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack

Broadcom has patched three vulnerabilities in the VMware ESXi hypervisor and related products, with Microsoft reporting the flaws are being actively exploited to take control of host systems. Broadcom ...
techworm.net

How to Run Virtualbox on Mac M1, M2 & later in 2025

Running Virtualbox on Mac has always been a tricky business. The situation did not change with the Apple Silicon processors either. Oracle, the company behind it, eventually stopped releasing ...
Ars Technica

As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank

Another company has publicly cut ties with Broadcom’s VMware. This time, it’s Ingram Micro, one of the world’s biggest IT distributors. The announcement comes as Broadcom eyes services as a key part ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft's Windows 11 Virtual Machines Have Vanished Into Thin Air, Nowhere to Be Seen

Disk images for Microsoft's Windows 11 Development Environment virtual machines have suddenly become unavailable. As of Oct. 23, all four variants of these virtual machines—Hyper-V, Parallels for Mac, ...
Bleeping Computer

Critical Kubernetes Image Builder flaw gives SSH root access to VMs

A critical vulnerability in Kubernetes could allow unauthorized SSH access to a virtual machine running an image created with the Kubernetes Image Builder project. Kubernetes is an open-source ...
Computerworld

How to set up Windows 11 Hyper-V virtual machines

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...