VMWare has released the second beta of Fusion for Mac OS X. The most notable feature of this new release is limited games support, basically meaning they’re accelerating 3D video in a virtual machine. Support is currently limited to a small set of DirectX 8.1 based games, but it’s an interesting start.
One of the […]
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Macworld is running an interesting comparison between VMWare Fusion and Parallels. This is kind of unfair since VMWare Fusion is still in Beta, which they state repeatedly, but it may be useful to help you decide if you should wait for a stable VMWare release or jump on the Parallels bandwagon now.
Running benchmark tests within […]
As part of the beta program for the JumpBox virtual appliance platform, we’ve released a new virtual appliance for the Wordpress blogging platform. Wordpress is a very popular blogging tool and it runs both Virtualization Daily and the JumpBox web site. The Wordpress JumpBox provides a pretty easy way to install Wordpress on Windows and […]
VMWare has posted a tutorial on how to build a virtual appliance for the VMWare platform.
So you are intrigued… You have read a little about what virtual appliances are. You have seen the growing numbers of virtual appliances on the VMTN Virtual Appliances Directory. You have read about the benefits of building virtual appliances. […]
The Monash Report is reporting on the success of the VMWare virtual appliance program and the Proofpoint antispam appliance.
I talked with Proofpoint today, and got a more positive view about VMware’s virtual appliance strategy than I’ve gotten from other appliance vendors. They cite over 500 downloads in the past couple of months, of which a […]
Wiki vendor MindTouch has just released their Deki wiki software as a VMWare virtual appliance. MindTouch had been distributing Deki as a hardware appliance for sometime so it’s not surprising to see this come about.
MindTouch, the most comprehensive vendor of business wiki solutions, today unveiled MindTouch Deki, the world’s first business wiki implemented as a […]
EMC is reporting that revenue for VMWare is up 101% in 2006.
VMware grew revenue 101% in 2006 to $709 million. VMware spokesmen attributed the growth primarily to its Infrastructure 3 suite of virtualization software, which provides tools to manage multiple brands of virtual machines, as well as VMware’s ESX Server and Virtual Server products.
What I […]
At JumpBox we have released an update to the vTiger CRM JumpBox and added a new PunBB discussion forums JumpBox. A JumpBox is a virtual appliance that can be deployed on Parallels, Xen and VMWare. At this time these appliances are suitable for evaluation and testing. As the platform matures, JumpBox will offer support for […]
VirtualAppliances.net has released a new LAMP virtual appliance.
Our new LAMP Virtual Appliance provides turnkey Apache HTTP Server, PHP,
Perl, Python, and MySQL in one easy to use 65MB download.
Uniquely, this Virtual Appliance shares the web content via CIFS/Windows
Networking for extremely easy to use content publication and management.
This appliance features optional use of virtual hard disks for […]
InfoQ has an interesting interview with Jim Sherburne from BEA where he talks about BEA’s effort to run Weblogic directly on top of the hypervisor. I had posted about this previously, but this interview adds a little more info.
The first product to be released using the Liquid VM technology will be WebLogic Server - Virtual […]
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