Virtualization Daily

A couple days ago I wrote about how to convert a VMWare appliance to Parallels, now today I see Dave over on Dave’s Virtual Cave has posted how to convert a JumpBox virtual appliance to work with Microsoft Virtual Server. Actually, what he does will work for any appliance that has a VMDK disk in it. This is a great feature of virtual appliances. You can easily convert them to what ever virtualization platform you want.

Also Dave, criticizes us for not supporting Microsoft Virtual Server with the JumpBox appliances. Point taken, and it’s not that we consider Microsoft virtual server to be unimportant. The reason it’s not supported is simply that we ship a single appliance that works on Parallels, Xen and VMWare, there’s no conversion involved. To this point I haven’t seen a way to also make that work with Microsoft’s system. If there is a way, I’d love to hear about it and we’ll happily include support in all future JumpBox appliances. Otherwise, we will ship a standalone version for Microsoft Virtual Server at some point in the future.