I disagree. I think it's more toxic to have EOL systems (like PVE7) on the Internet. It makes the world for all a worse place. I also think it's toxic to register accounts to cry about about an "Proxmox security issue" which quite obviouvsly...
Systems without current system updates can be hacked, nothing is "new" or "urgent" on this. And PVE7 and PVE8 won't get any security updates any more so it's somehow expected that they get owned. Even if you don't connect them directly to the...
Only to you, unless you are claiming that it affects an up-to-date version of PVE.
PVE 7 is based on Debian 11, PVE 8 on Debian 12. So they would be affected by that bug unless they were updated since the bug was fixed.
I guess you mean you're amazed that whatever is writing these broken VMDK files isn't fixed.
If a field is supposed to be quoted, and isn't, that's not a problem with the parser, it is a problem with the writer. The only complaint you should...