Virtualization

Reports on Broadcom's vSphere Express cite up to 128 cores and a $9,600 figure that none of the cited reports attributes to Broadcom; analysts split on the EEA vSphere 8 terms.

Cloud architect Andrija Panić published OpenVDDK, an Apache-2.0 library he calls a drop-in for VMware's VDDK; its README says the repository is read-only and pull requests are not accepted yet.

Docker's self-built container hypervisor replaces libkrun on Mac and Hyper-V/WSL2 on Windows, with general availability targeted for the end of October.

A 16-year-old use-after-free bug in Linux's KVM hypervisor, dubbed Januscape and rated CVSS 8.8, lets malicious VMs escape to the host on both Intel and AMD systems; OVHcloud patched roughly a million VMs across its fleet in an 11-day campaign.

The CNCF incubating project's latest release adds a multi-hypervisor backend, Intel TDX attestation for confidential computing, and PCIe NUMA topology awareness for AI workloads, while scaling its test framework to 8,000 virtual machines.