There’s a brand new version of VMware Studio coming up. For those who aren’t familiar with VMware Studio it basically comes down to this: with VMware Studio you can create your own virtual appliances.
Or as VMware puts it:
VMware Studio provides mechanisms for authoring, on-site management, distributing and deployment of production-ready virtual appliances. ISVs, hardware appliance vendors, and developers use VMware Studio to configure and package their solutions in a standards-based Open Virtualization Format (OVF). VMware Studio also enables software providers and developers to leverage the industry’s leading virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure, and offers built appliances all the great management services that VMware Infrastructure delivers.
New features:
- Windows Support (32 bit and 64 bit) 2003 & 2008 Server
- Create multi-VM vApp and multi-VM VA
- 64 bit support for SLES 10.2, RHEL 5.2 & 5.3, CentOS 5.2 & 5.3
- Extensible in-guest Management Framework
- OVF 1.0 support
- Eclipse Plugin
- Enable ESX, ESXi, VC, Server 2.0 and Workstation as provisioning engine
- Automatic Dependency Resolution (Static)
- Publish OVF to VC
- Infrastructure enhancements – GUI and Builds
- Studio-created VM as Input
VMware Studio 2.0 will be available on Monday! Better make sure to get it while it’s hot… even vStu is excited!
There’s more info to be found here.
This is awesome! I just downloaded 1.0 to start in with some of the vApp stuff, as I’m going to be working on small Suse apache/tomcat appliances for my customer. This will hopefully be a big help! I’m still really trying to wrap my head around what can be done in the .ovf config versus what has to be done as a “on first boot” script on the appliance itself. Maybe this will give me the full OVF 1.0 list of options and put them into context