virtualization

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Three identical black compact servers side by side on a wooden shelf, two with green status lights and the middle one with a yellow light

VMware to Proxmox After Broadcom: The Real 3-Year Cost for a 3-Host Small Business

Broadcom publishes no per-core price, so nobody can hand you a VMware total. We can price the Proxmox side to the dollar, count the 96 cores you would license on VMware, and show the one per-core quote that makes the two equal.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min

NVD detail for CVE-2026-57092 showing a 9.9 Windows VMSwitch use-after-free

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a 9.9 in Windows Hyper-V lets an attacker break out of one VM and take the whole host's network

CVE-2026-57092 is a use-after-free in Windows VMSwitch — the virtual network switch behind Hyper-V. It scores 9.9 because it breaks out of its security boundary. If you run Hyper-V, patch it.

Aliteq Team · Jul 28 · 9 min

A server rack — Proxmox VE runs virtualization clusters

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your Proxmox 8.4 box stops getting support in August. here's the 9.2 upgrade

Proxmox VE 8.4 stops getting support in August. 9.2 finally adds the automatic load balancing VMware refugees kept asking for — and I think the upgrade is worth doing for that alone, deadline or not.

Aliteq Team · Jul 20 · 8 min