Kodiak 0.0.2 will be out in a few hours! I’m currently preparing my VM’s to check it out! And I will post a couple of screenshots tonight! For those that never heard of Kodiak(by Bluebear) before, read this blog entry, in short it’s a cross platform application with which you will be able to manage multiple hypervisors and management applications! The new features look promising!
Taken from the release notes:
New functionality:
We have added support for configuring existing virtual machines. All the expected functions are available. Configuration for a Virtual Machine is accessible via the configure button attached to a given VM object on the screen (Inspector Panels / Map)Configuration of all standard resources is available, e.g. Memory Size, CPU allocation/shares, virtual disks, virtual NICs, and removable devices.
Usage Notes
- Virtual disks are of the “preallocated/thick” type, support for all disk types will be available in the next release.
- ‘Host-device-backed’ virtual devices (e.g. floppy/cdrom/raw) are not supported, but will be available in a future release.
- ‘Remote-backed’ virtual devices (e.g. floppy/cdrom/ISO images on the client) are not supported, but will be available in a future release.
- VMs must be powered off for configuration. While it is possible to reconfigure a running VM, it may result in a host fault that will cause your changes to be discarded.
- If you make changes to a VM that you don’t want to commit, simply close the configure window and the changes will be discarded, (or hit the discard button).
- Support for VM Creation will be available in the next release.
Known Issues
- Untrusted certificates on windows may cause an authorization dialog to continually appear. The certificate must be added to the local store, please see this page for a work-around.
- License keycodes are case sensitive, please ensure you enter them exactly.
- VirtualCenter is not yet fully supported. While it might work, functionality is not guaranteed to give predictable results. We are currently adapting Kodiak’s back-end data model to more effectively handle VirtualCenter’s data structures.
Still not working on Vista… 🙁
All I get is the trusted issues and if you accept and install them they keep coming back, help me oh mighty programming Bears!!!
Brian, we have a new fix for Vista!
Self-signed certificates need to be added to the ‘Trusted Root Certification Authorities’ store.
Click my title for step-by-step instructions.
Hello,
I have a large (60+virtual machine and growing, 20+ and growing) VMWare VI3 datacenter running. I also have a some machines running VMWare Server that I want to move to 3i but would like to have central management of all of them. So if anyone has any invites left, I would like to give this a try.
Thanks!
-Mark Hawkins
Oh all mighty programming Bears….I think I found the issue:
“This certificate has expired or is not yet valid”
Issued to: VMware
Issued by: VMware
Valid from 10/10/2006 to 10/9/2008
HUH???!!!!!!!!! We have a volume enterprise key soooooo….does VMware need to be wacked upside the head with a jar of Honey?
Brian – uh-oh! looks like you need to regenerate your certificate!
Click my title for a handy guide, compliments of vm-help.com
Kodiak 0.0.2 – ‘Curious Cub’ is now available!
Please can someone send me an invite for the beta.
Thanx
I’d like to be included in the beta as well, running ESX 3.5 cluster with ~30 guests.
I’d like an invite aswell, if there are any left (Please!!!)