Virtual Strategy Magazine produced an interesting interview about Virtual Service Orchestrator (VS-O) present and future features, thanks to Stephane Broquere, CEO, Dunes.
Read it here.
Year: 2004
Virtual Strategy Magazine interviews David Crosbie of Leostream
Virtual Strategy Magazine produced an interesting interview about Virtual Machine Controller (VMC) present and future features, thanks to David Crosbie, CEO, Leostream.
Read it here.
Green Hills adds server virtualization software
Quoting from Socal Tech:
Santa Barbara-based Green Hills Software said this morning that it has introduced a new technology which allows integration of Linux and other operating system software easily into its secure operating system.
The new INTEGRITY PC product creates a “virtual computer” that runs on top of Green Hills INTEGRITY operating system, allowing companies to run operating systems such as Linux without requiring porting of those applications. The company reports that Boeing is using the technology in several of its military development programs. Green Hills said that the product, based on its Padded Cell technology, allows multiple virtual computers to run in user mode on top of their operating system. Each of those virtual computers are separate, and even if they crash cannot affect other parts of the operating system.
The software is similar to products in the desktop space from Microsoft and VMware, and reflects a general industry trend toward server virtualization. Green Hills’ products are focused on the embedded operating system market.
Microsoft releases Virtual PC 7.0.1 for Mac on MSDN
Virtual PC for Macintosh 7.0.1 (English) was posted to MSDN Subscriber Downloads on November 19, 2004
Located in: Platforms | Virtual PC | Virtual PC for Mac 7.0.1.
This is available in the following subscription levels:
VMware opens up RSS feeds
VMware just published various RSS feeds on official website for news hungry customers:
– Articles
– Events
– News Releases
– Success Stories
– VMware Products
Anyway, if you are a virtualization.info reader you don’t need them 😉
VMware virtual disks IDE2SCSI Converter
Ulli Hankeln, owner of Sanbarrow.com VMware hacking site, wrote a software able to convert any VMware virtual disk from IDE to SCSI, without using imaging/cloning solutions:
I have written a patch that converts a XP-ide-disk into a XP-buslogic disk. No imaging or cloneing necessary.
All you have to do is edit the vmdk-descriptor and run the patch from BartPE.
It fixes disk-geometrie and boot-device in registry.
He posted the news but just few answered. If you are interested tell him and we’ll see the tool published.
Borning virtualization projects
Sourceforge is the best place to look for interesting projects. A quick search revealed me at least three borning projects about VMware and Virtual Server:
– vmware-magic
vmware-magic is a set of shell scripts to provide a computer lab with the ability to maintain sets of VMware images on a central server for archival and distribution within the lab. The scripts provide for users to have access to their images from any machine
– OpenVMRC
OpenVMRC is an open source Virtual Machine Remote Control (VMRC) Client for Microsoft Virtual Server.
– VMware Consolidated MUI
The purpose of this project is to create a consolidated VMware GSX/ESX web-based management interface using XML and XSL, together with Perl and Apache.
SWsoft opens Windows to virtualization
Quoting from Computer Business Review Online:
Herndon, Virginia-based SWsoft has previously focused Virtuozzo on the Linux server space but has been working on a Windows port of the product since early 2003, shortly after Microsoft acquired rival Connectix. The Connectix team was at the time gearing up to apply its PC virtualization technology to the server space, the results of which were finally released by Microsoft as Virtual Server 2005 product.
As one of the leading players in the server virtualization space, alongside EMC Corp’s VMware, SWsoft has much to gain from counteracting Microsoft’s entry into the server virtualization space, and Virtuozzo for Windows is a timely announcement.
However, the product will not be available until early 2005, with beta testing due to last until December 6, 2004. The product creates what SWsoft calls Virtual Private Servers, with additional functionality including dynamic partitioning, resource management, operating system virtualization, and automated management.
The company also offers the Virtuozzo Management Console centralized administration management tool, as well as browser-based Virtuozzo Power Panels for the management of individual virtual servers.
Virtual Strategy Magazine interviews Stephen Pollack of PlateSpin
Virtual Strategy Magazine produced an interesting interview about PowerP2V present and future features, thanks to Stephen Pollack, CEO, PlateSpin.
Read it here.
Whitepaper: Using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to create and configure a two-node Microsoft Windows
Quoting from Microsoft Technet:
Abstract
Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 enables use of virtual machines for sophisticated computing configurations like clustering. Clustering is valuable to businesses as it provides high availability for mission critical business applications and computing processes. Using virtual machines to cluster server computers has the added advantage of allowing a server to take advantage of its full computing power by running multiple virtual machines on a single hardware device, thus providing redundancy without requiring the quantity of computer hardware and associated cost that could be required for conventional clustering configurations. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating and configuring a typical, single quorum device, two-node server cluster. The configuration uses a shared disk on servers with Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition installed in virtual machines on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.
Go ahead and read it here.