This isn't an off-schedule April Fools' Joke or anything like that but an exciting sign of the times: VMware Workstation will be shifting off its proprietary base and onto leveraging the upstream Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for virtualization needs moving forward. This week a kernel patch series hit the Linux kernel mailing list by Broadcom (formerly VMware) engineer Zack Rusin entitled KVM: x86: Small changes to support VMware guests. That patch series explicitly lays out: "To be a...