While everyone is talking about the new versions of VMware Fusion (Release Notes) and VMware Workstation (Release Notes) I would like to show my appreciation for VMware Player. VMware Player is one of the most under-appreciated VMware products in my opinion. Especially now that VMware has released version 3 I expect to see and hear more of VMware Player. Why? [...]
Just noticed that a new version of the VMware View Open Client has been released: Latest Release: 4.0.0 Beta 1 (October 2, 2009) VMware View Open Client version 4.0.0 Beta 1 is now available on the Downloads page. Please see the release announcement for a summary of what’s included in this release. Features Some of the features included are: Ability [...]
VMware just released VMware View Manager 3.1.2: View Manager Version 3.1.2 | 04 September 2009 | Build: 188088 (View Manager), 161885 (View Composer) VMware View Manager 3.1.2 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues in the previous releases. Refer the Resolved Issues section for more details. This release also includes one new feature. Virtual Printing Multi Session Support [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about VMware Studio 2.0. VMware Studio 2.0 has just officially been released. Source: VMware Studio 2.0 helps author, configure, deploy and customize vApps and virtual appliances. vApps support the industry standard Open Virtualization Format (OVF). vApps can be deployed on VMware vSphere 4.0 or in the cloud. vCenter Server 4.0 now supports creating [...]
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 [...]
I run VMware Workstation at home because ESX doesn’t have drivers for my SATA controller. After a motherboard failure I had to reconstruct my software RAID, and this morning I tried to recreate a virtual disk I use for saving images of my laptop. Previously it was approximately 140Gb in size; after a rearrange the parition is 237Gb, so I [...]
We are proud to officially announce the VMworld 2009 – Ask the Experts Panel Session. This session will feature virtualization experts Rick Scherer, Scott Lowe, Duncan Epping, Chad Sakac and Tom Howarth answering your questions on virtual infrastructure design. In the next week or so we will be posting sections on our blog sites for you to submit questions for [...]
