VMware Thinapp 4 available
From today VMware ThinApp 4 is available. You can download a 60-day trial version which includes the packager, 50 client licenses and VMware workstation 6.
The ThinApp suite 4 can be … Continue Reading
The Virtualization Administrator is dead !
Today I stumbled upon an article of Mark Gaydos on TripWire.org. In this article he describes a conversation he had with an Industry Analyst concerning the future of Virtualization Administration. What it basically comes down to is that in a couple of years Virtualization will be commodity and all aspects will be divided to separate departments/disciplines. The department networking will be concerned with the virtual networks, the department security will be concerned with all the virtual infrastructure security and so on.
This might sound far away but I also think … Continue Reading
Hyper-V is here !
Hyper-V has finally gotten the RTM status so it’s now available for download.
I don’t think that Hyper-V is the best product on the market to provide a full blown virtualization infrastructure but hey; it’s a Microsoft products so we all know that a load of organizations will adopt it anyways. So I’ll install it this weekend, just because I need to know it, not because I want to 
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VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta 2 released
For those of you who have registered as a beta user you can download the new VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta 2 here. A recap of the release notes:
- Windows Server 2008 experimentally supported.
- Virtual Machine Streaming
- Installer bundle for Linux hosts
- Experimental record/replay debugging
- Unity Mode Enhancements
- Text copy and paste enhancements
- VMRun Enhancements
netBoot/i v2.5 Released
Maybe a bit of topic but emBoot release version 2.5 of their product, this is the mail they dropped me:
Our netBoot/i v2.5 diskless iSCSI boot solution for Windows and Linux (now including support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista) has shipped (read the Press Release).
What’s New in netBoot/i v2.5?
• Supports Booting (Physical or Virtual Servers) Windows XP2000, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows Vista Enterprise, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
• Enhanced Shared-Image Support Including Persistence: Boot multiple clients from a single read-only image and maintain individual user’s settings & data
• P2V, V2P, V2V, P2P Migration Capabilities Across dissimilar hardware and Microsoft or VMware virtual machines … Continue Reading
