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Some desktop PCs include two Ethernet ports to give users more networking flexibility, such as failover backup connections or access to separate networks. The dual ports can also enable link aggregation (also called NIC teaming or bonding), which combines two Ethernet links into one connection for added bandwidth and redundancy, provided both ends support and configure it.
Rimini Street's '2026 IT Virtualization Survey,' conducted with Unisphere Research across 300 organizations, found that 90% of VMware users are looking at alternative virtualization options because of rising licensing costs, and 54% cited Broadcom's decision to end support for perpetual license holders. The survey also found 73% of respondents rank cost savings as a top priority, while many cite operational complexity, multi-vendor management, security exposure, and skills gaps as barriers to switching.
WiCi has unveiled the WiCi One, an external GPU enclosure that connects to host computers over Wi-Fi 7 instead of a wired PCIe or USB link, and includes a built-in 4TB SSD. The company says custom driver software makes the OS treat the GPU as a locally attached device while caching, deduplicating and compressing data to reduce the effects of network latency, and it supports Python libraries and an HTTP API so multiple machines could share the same card.
An open-source project called virtio-nvgpu forwards Nvidia kernel driver ioctls directly between a Linux KVM guest and host, letting the guest run Nvidia's unmodified user-mode drivers for Vulkan and NVENC without API-level translation. Benchmarks on an RTX 3060 show guest frame times within about 2% of bare metal for frames above roughly 2ms, with CPU usage in the guest matching or slightly beating the host over a 12-second, ~100fps test.
A developer explains their search for a way to develop and test Apple platform apps without owning a traditional Mac, after finding virtual machines unreliable and Codemagic's cloud CI/CD service too costly or impersonal for real testing. They ultimately decided they needed genuine Apple hardware and documented the process of setting up a stripped-down, headless Mac configuration to serve that purpose.
Microsoft confirmed that starting in October 2026, memory integrity protection built on Virtualization-based Security will be switched on by default for eligible Windows 11 PCs. The feature runs Windows as a guest OS under Hyper-V to isolate the kernel from tampering, but Microsoft has previously acknowledged it can hurt gaming performance. Organizations will retain the ability to disable it, though the default posture is shifting toward security-first.
Microsoft will start rolling out updates that automatically turn on memory integrity and Virtualization-based Security on eligible Windows 11 devices, aiming to make the OS secure by default. The kernel-level protection blocks untrusted drivers and code but can reduce gaming frame rates, especially on older CPUs. Devices where users previously disabled the feature will not have it re-enabled automatically.
A new open-source project called vphone-cli lets developers create and run a virtual iPhone on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS Sequoia, using Apple's Virtualization.framework alongside infrastructure derived from Apple's Private Cloud Compute research VM setup. The tool automates the full pipeline of downloading IPSW firmware, patching the boot chain, restoring via DFU mode, installing a custom firmware variant, and launching the resulting virtual device, with commands also available to manage, clone, export, and import VM instances.