Security researcher Sergey Zelenyuk has discovered a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox, the Open Source virtualization software developed by Oracle. This failure allows malware to leave the virtual machine and execute malicious code on the host OS that runs the VirtualBox process.
OpenNebulaConf 2018 is around the corner. The event will be hold in Amsterdam next Monday and Tuesday 12-13 of November. One of our customers, the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) will present there their experience with UDS Enterprise and OpenNebula as key components of their desktop virtualization infrastructure to provide VDI access to their 37,000 students.
Frederic Malengreau, Support Manager at UCLouvain, will be the speaker at the conference, and he will explain why the IT team at this university wanted “to adopt BYOD to be able to give students the opportunity to use their own devices to access the same software they use in the standard computer classrooms anytime and from anywhere”.
The Israeli company CompLab has developed in collaboration with the developers of the Linux Mint distro the Mini PC MintBox Mini, a small computer that allows to install different versions of both Linux and Windows, even start both OS at the same time.
The interesting Case Study of the Provincial Council of Jaén, which provides virtual applications in HA for 97 municipalities and 40 remote offices with UDS Enterprise has been the most read new in our blog during the month of October.
Next, our followers have been interested in the pairing of the NodeWeaver hyperconvergence solution and the UDS Enterprise VDI and vApp connection broker.
The XCP-ng development team has announced the availability of a new version of the Open Source hypervisor based on Citrix XenServer. This new release incorporates important improvements at security level.
