Archive for November, 2006



VMWaretube: Keynote web casts

VMWare is going to be webcasting the Keynote presentations for VMWorld 2006 from Los Angeles. You can register in advance.
Of particular interest for me is the Virtual Appliances panel on Tuesday.

Panel - Virtual Appliances: A New Paradigm for Enterprise Software Development, Deployment and Management
Virtual appliances are all the rage. Senior executives from leading ISVs […]

VMWorld 2006 is next week

VMWorld 2006 is coming up next week. I’ll be there on Monday for partner day, but unfortunately prior commitments prevent me from attending the full conference.

VMWare releases closed beta of Mac OS X version

VMWare has released a beta of VMWare Fusion for Mac OS X. Currently this is a closed beta and I’ve been anxiously waiting for my invitation, but no love so far. I’m not sure how they’re allocating access to it.

Virtual appliances and the changing role of operating systems

Dan Farber from ZDNet has posted some interesting thoughts on the virtual appliance concept and how it fundamentally alters the role of the operating system.

The role of the OS in a virtual appliance becomes more about supporting applications. “In Windows and Linux, for example, the applications are coded to those APIs. Over time, there could […]

rPath adds support for Xen 3.0.3 to rBuilder

rPath has announced that they’re now supporting the creation of Xen virtual appliances using rBuilder and rBuilder Online. This included updating many of the existing appliances for use with Xen.

Reflecting the strong community demand for appliances on the Xen hypervisor, rPath has made many of the most popular projects on rBuilder Online available for download […]