Category Archives: Virtualization

VMware Security Updates (03/17/2020)

Posted on 2020-03-18 by guenni

[German]Vulnerabilities exist in VMware Workstation, Fusion, VMware Remote Console, and Horizon Client that allow privilege escalation or denial of service (DoS). Security updates are available for the affected products. Advertising

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VMware Security Updates (12./14.3.2020)

Posted on 2020-03-14 by guenni

[German]VMware has just received a security update for its virtualization products, including VMware Workstation Pro and Vmware Player. These updates address security vulnerabilities in the virtualization products. Advertising

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VEEAM Instant VM Recovery: Potential data loss

Posted on 2020-02-28 by guenni

[German]Today a brief information for administrators using VEEAM Instant VM Recovery. In certain cases, vSphere may be at risk of data loss if not responded to. In the meantime a patch is available to fix the problem. Advertising

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App-V publishing fails due to UserConfig files

Posted on 2020-02-22 by guenni

[German]Here’s an article about App-V and a problem that publishing App-V applications fails because a UserConfig file is used. Windows returns the error code 0x0FD0A725-0000000057 in the log file when the App-V packages are delivered. Advertising

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VirtualBox 6.1.4 released

Posted on 2020-02-21 by guenni

[German]Oracle’s developers have released Virtualbox version 6.1.4 on 19 January 2020.  It is a maintenance update which should fix bugs of earlier versions.  Advertising

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Windows 10 / Server 2019: Slow Network on Hyper-V & Bar Metal

Posted on 2020-02-21 by guenni

[German]A German blog reader has pointed out recently a problem with Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 regarding poor network performance (low throughput) in connection with Hyper-V guests (but also on bare metal Windows 10 clients without virtualization). The reason … Continue reading →

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Docker for Windows collides with Razer Synapse driver tool

Posted on 2020-02-18 by guenni

[German]A short note for Windows users who intend to experiment with Docker for Windows. There are conflicts with the Razer Synapse driver tool. Funny is the reason why the two programs fails to work together. Advertising

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VMware updates the CPU license model

Posted on 2020-02-06 by guenni

A brief information for administrators using VMware Server, vSphere or similar virtualization products. The company has revised its CPU licensing models. Advertising

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VirtualBox 6.1.2 released

Posted on 2020-01-16 by guenni

[German]Oracle’s developers have released Virtualbox version 6.1.2 on January 14, 2020. It is a maintenance update which should fix bugs of earlier versions. Advertising

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Privilege-Escalation-Bug in VMWare

Posted on 2019-12-18 by guenni

[German]Is VMware virtualization software with VMware Tools installed on Windows systems? Then there is probably a Privilege Escalation vulnerability that can be used by attackers to increase their privileges. Addendum: The tweets announcing the bug were deleted now and the … Continue reading →

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