VMware quietly debuts Arm hypervisor tech preview

VMware quietly debuts Arm hypervisor tech preview

VMware has quietly debuted a technology preview of its flagship ESX hypervisor that is capable of running on Arm processors and servers. The virtualization giant teased its new tech in a Xeet which piqued our interest and led to the discovery of this document [PDF] on the public internet that explains the hypervisor supports guests running RHEL, Ubuntu, and SUSE, on servers from HPE and Gigabyte powered by Ampere processors, or Supermicro’s ARS-…

VMware takes first step toward Arm with ESX preview

VMware released a preview of ESX for Arm systems. In doing so, the company is positioning itself for a future in which Arm plays a greater role