Archive for the 'VMWare' Category



It’s a big day for Mac virtualization betas.

To go along with the release of the beta for VMWare Fusion for Mac OS X, there’s also a new beta (Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Beta2 (Build 3094)) for VMWare’s chief Mac competitor Parallels.
Parallels has been making great strides on integrating virtualized Windows into the Mac OS X desktop. With this release they’ve […]

VMware Fusion Beta Available

VMWare has now released the first Beta of VMWare Fusion. A little more info is available in this blog post. On the surface it doesn’t seem much different from the earlier friends and family release, although it has a few improvements under the covers. This sounds like a particularly interesting feature.
We realize that once you […]

How VMWare missed its cue and allowed Parallels to steal the Mac Virtualization Market

Parallels has won a MacWorld Editors Choice award for Parallels Desktop on Mac OS X. It’s an obvious choice for the award as Parallels is easily one of the most important pieces of Mac software released this year. So congratulations to the folks at Parallels, it’s yet another kudo for what has to have been […]

Microsoft virtual appliances added to VMWare’s directory

In an interesting twist, VMWare has added six virtual hard disk (VHD) images from Microsoft to the VMWare virtual appliance directory. These machines were orginally released for Microsoft Virtual Server and Microsoft Virtual PC. But VMWare is saying that you can run these unmodified using VMWare Player, VMWare Server and VMWare ESX. The catch … […]

Virtual appliance used to crack Vista activation

Well, we’d like to think virtual appliances are only used for good, but it looks like there’s also a virtual appliance floating around that can be used to activate the corporate version of Windows Vista without paying for the licenses.
The MelindaGates hack uses a VMware image of a KMS server to activate — and […]

Use virtual appliances? Win an iPod

VMWare is running a contest to collect experiences from people who are using virtual appliances. To be entered you have to fill out this survey that asks a few questions about how you’re using the appliances and what appliances you’d like to see. They’re giving away three iPods in a drawing after the survey completes. […]

VMWare looking for a product manager for virtual appliances

VMWare is looking to hire a product manager to be responsible for virtual appliances.
The Product Manager will be responsible for defining and delivering a set of value-added features/products around virtual appliances. The candidate will need to do an extensive analysis of virtual appliances within both the partner and customer communities to determine and drive a […]

Virtual appliances emerge as OS distribution mechanism

SearchOpenSource.com is running an article titled “Virtual appliances emerge as OS distribution mechanism” that’s talking about RedHat and Sun pushing virtual appliance as the distribution mechanism for their OS.
In a twist, last month, Red Hat Inc. and VMware Inc. partnered to distribute a RHEL5/VMware Server bundle as a virtual appliance through the VMware Virtual […]

Two updated FIX virtual appliances from Cohesive FT

Cohesive FT has released two new virtual appliances for Parallels and VMWare. These appliances implement tools for managing Financial Information Exchange messages based on the FIX protocol. They’ve released Alpha 2 of the FIX - Drop Trade Consolidator and Alpha 1 of the FIX - Execution Gateway Router.

The OS is under attack … continuing the conversation

Following up on my post “The OS is under attack” with some input from a few more people.

First Scott Lowe has posted his thought on the subject to his blog, in a post titled the future of the OS.
I guess that depends on how you define the operating system. I tend to agree […]