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This release of VMware Workstation Pro includes some bug fixes and security updates. 12.5.8 Pro [67] 16 November 2017 Support added for: RHEL 7.4; Oracle Linux 7.3; 12.5.9 Pro [68] 10 January 2018 This update of VMware Workstation Pro exposes hardware support for branch target injection mitigation to VMware guests.
VMware's most notable products are its hypervisors. VMware became well known for its first type 2 hypervisor known as VMware Workstation. This product has since evolved into two additional hypervisor product lines: VMware's type 1 hypervisors running directly on hardware and their discontinued hosted type 2 hypervisors .
Much of the underlying technology in VMware Fusion is inherited from other VMware products, such as VMware Workstation, allowing VMware Fusion to offer features such as 64-bit and SMP support. [8] VMware Fusion 1.0 was released on August 6, 2007, exactly one year after being announced. [9]
VMware Workstation version 11 and above supports UEFI, independently of whether the physical host system is UEFI-based. VMware Workstation 14 (and accordingly, Fusion 10) adds support for the Secure Boot feature of UEFI. [148] [149] The VMware ESXi 5.0 hypervisor officially supports UEFI. Version 6.5 adds support for Secure Boot.
A security update was released on July 14, 2009 to address an elevation of privilege vulnerability in guest operating systems. [ 16 ] Microsoft Virtual PC (2004 and 2007) does not work at all on Windows 10 64-bit, [ 17 ] and even on 32-bit platforms lack internet connectivity due to the lack of the VPC driver.
Once it was determined that VMware was not a possibility, it hired a group of Russian software developers to write a host-based hypervisor that would officially support OS/2. Thus, the Parallels, Inc. company and their Parallels Workstation product was born.
MINIX is a Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture, first released in 1987 and written by American-Dutch computer scientist Andrew S. Tanenbaum.It was designed as a clone of the Unix operating system [10] and one that could run on affordable, Intel 8086 based home computers; MINIX was targeted for use in classrooms by computer science students at universities.
Structure of monolithic kernel and microkernel-based operating systems, respectively. Reflecting on the nature of monolithic kernel based systems, where a driver (which has, according to Minix creator Tanenbaum, approximately 3–7 times as many bugs as a usual program) [17] can bring down the whole system, [18] Minix 3 aims to create an operating system that is a "reliable, self-healing ...