Tag Archives: Virtualization

Sandboxie Build 0.3/5.42 released

Posted on 2020-07-11 by guenni

[German]A few days ago David Xantos brought his Sandboxie-Fork to build 0.3/5.42. David informed me about this fact and some changes by mail. Thus security gaps in the original sandbox mechanism are fixed by the update.. Advertising

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Windows 10: Nested Virtualization support for AMD

Posted on 2020-06-14 by guenni

[German]Another small note for people who work with Hyper-V under Windows 10 Microsoft has begun adding support for nested virtualization on AMD systems in Windows 10. Advertising

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Update for VMware OS Optimization Tool (VMware Horizon)

Posted on 2020-06-04 by guenni

[German]Already on June 2, 2020 there has been an update of the VMware OS Optimization Tool for VMware Horizon 7 and VMware Horizon Cloud. There is a new option called Update to enable Windows Update on an image again. Advertising

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Virtualbox 6.1.8, 6.0.22 and 5.2.42 released

Posted on 2020-05-20 by guenni

[German]Oracle’s developers have already released Virtualbox version 6.1.8 (as well as 6.0.22 and 5.2.42) on 15 May 2020. These are maintenance updates, which should fix bugs of earlier versions. Advertising

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Fix for critical VMWare vCenter Server vulnerability CVE-2020-3952

Posted on 2020-04-10 by guenni

[German]There is a critical vulnerability CVE-2020-3952 in VMWare vCenter Server for which the vendor has now released a security update.  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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Windows 10: Update KB4517211/KB4522015 breaks VMware Workstation

Posted on 2019-10-03 by guenni

[German]It seems, that Update KB4517211 for Windows 10 Version 1809 and  KB4522015 for Windows 10 Version 1903 breaks older Versions of VMware workstation. This virtualization software can’t launch after installing this patch. Advertising

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Caution when updating to ESXi 6.5 Update 3 HPE Custom

Posted on 2019-07-31 by guenni

[German]Brief note for users of HPE servers running VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 3 with a custom image. I just came across a problem report that there are problems with the custom image. Advertising

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Windows 10 gets Sandbox for applications

Posted on 2018-12-19 by guenni

[German]Microsoft is working on a sandbox mode for applications in Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise so they can be tested in a secure environment. Here is what Microsoft is planning. Advertising

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Office in Virtual Desktop Environments

Posted on 2018-09-30 by guenni

At Ignite 2018 Microsoft announced the ‘Windows Virtual Desktop’: virtual machines with Windows and Office running on Microsoft Azure. How Microsoft imagines Office in Virtual Desktop environments has been demonstrated in a session at the Ignite. Advertising

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