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I'm going through a rather busy week, so only one thing from the news today: VMware releases Workstation 6.5! New features in VMware Workstation 6.5 Seamless desktop experience with Unity Support for DirectX 3D graphic Simplify creating Windows and Linux virtual machines with Easy Install VM record and replay for groundbreaking debugging Create ACE encrypted [...]

I've been spending increasingly more time running Ubuntu on one of my desktops. It has replaced the Windows Vista I had and so far I quite like the experiment. Out of the box, all of the hardware was properly supported and even the NTFS partitions left from Vsita install are easily available.One of the first [...]

Many of you have probably heard about the recent Core Security findings which resulted in a security advisory CORE-2007-0930, Path Traversal vulnerability in VMware's shared folders implementation: A vulnerability was found in VMware's shared folders mechanism that grants users of a Guest system read and write access to any portion of the Host's file system [...]

Lately I've been doing a lot of research with virtual machines created in VMware Workstation. And one of the first things you become conscious about is that disk performance in your virtual machine is far from being ideal. Don't be too quick to blame VMware though, there's quite a few reasons related to poor I/O, [...]