Year: 2006

A long thread about VMware Certified Professional (VCP) exam started few hours ago on VMware VMTN forums, and an unexpected replay message just appeared on it:
Our TAM told us the VCP will expire with ESX 3 but not when its released. Check with your TAM/Local SE for details.

Stay tuned for more news on this.

EMC Corporation, acquired VMware in December 2003, publishing Y2005 and 4Q 2005 results, disclosed in a press release that VMware Player surpassed 700.000 donwloads in just a month from its release.

Thanks to Richard Cardona for the news.

VMware just won another prize. Quoting from the official announcement:

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced that VMware Workstation received the InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year award in the best desktop virtualization category.

In addition, VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter received the InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year award in the best server virtualization category, marking the second consecutive year that VMware has won this prestigious award.

Your Virtual PC Guy, Ben Armstrong, posted another technical insight for running the old Novell Netware 6.5 in a Virtual Server virtual machine.
He has really good suggestions and warn you the performances are under acceptable level. But if you need to have it for troubleshooting or other better check his post.

After virtualization.info guide for running LiveCDs with VMware Player, other guides are surfacing on the Net.
Adrian Crenshaw produced a flash video to show how configure the Player for launching your preferred bootable ISO.

You can see (and save) it here.

Thanks to VMTN Blog for the news.

Gartner and Akimbi prepared an interesting free web seminar on how software engineering can receive great help from virtualization technologies:

Hosted by InformationWeek, join Gartner and Akimbi as they explore how new developments in virtualization technology impact software development and IT organizations worldwide. Learn how a new category of software dramatically improves application development (AD) lifecycle processes while simultaneously reducing server sprawl and eliminating the burden, often borne by IT operations, of repetitive and tedious test lab setup and provisioning.

The one-hour event is scheduled for 7th February. Register here.

CMPnet Asia published an interesting review of a virtual machines provisioning tool: BMC Virtualizer for Capacity on Demand.

Virtualizing servers with VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 in the enterprise can reduce hardware costs, but does little to decrease the time and labor needed to set up redundant, scalable systems. In short, virtualization lacks automation. BMC Software aims to remedy that with Virtualizer 2.4, a policy-based automation tool that provisions servers, applications and storage on demand.

I tested Virtualizer in our Syracuse University Real-World Labs®, installing it on a Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 4. I also implemented Virtualizer Service Agents on virtual machines (VMs) running on VMware ESX Server 2.5.2 and a conventional Intel PIII server (dual 1,400-MHz processors) with 1,024 MB of RAM running Microsoft Windows 2003. Virtualizer scaled out new servers and other enterprise resources on demand. However, it didn’t create new virtual machines on the fly. I’ll have to wait for the next version for that…

Read the whole review at source.

Just 10 days from my speculations on Intel MacOS virtualization (acting as a guest OS), today I found an interesting post on PowerPage blog.

The author, Jason O’Grady, inquired VMware Sales department for VMware availability (possibly referring to Workstation product) on Intel MacOSes (acting as an host OS).
The Sales department didn’t answer something like at today is not in our plan but we do not provide information in advance of an official press release.

So I assume an official press release is coming annoncing VMware products for MacTel…
This would make perfectly sense after the Microsoft annoncement of working with Apple for future of Virtual PC on MacOS.

After virtualization.info How to install Sun Solaris 10 inside VMware Workstation 5.5, another unofficial installation guide appeared.
This time the author is Juergen Winkelmann which details how to install Solaris 10 (03/05 or 01/06) inside a VMware ESX Server 2.5.2 virtual machine.

Read it here.

Thanks to VMTN Blog for the news.

Ulli Hankeln restless mind created a new Windows command script to generate VMware preallocated disks from scratch, much faster than VMware engine itself and unfragmented: Flatmaker.

Donwload it here.