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 […]
Archive for December, 2006
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 […]
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 […]
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 … […]
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 […]
rPath has announced that they are working with Newbury Networks to use rBuilder to create software appliances for Newbury’s Wi-Fi tracking systems.
“Once we selected Linux for the appliance, we realized the need to maintain the operating system in addition to providing administrative tools and software updates for our customers and partners,” said Michael Maggio, president […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
From SearchOpenSource.com, “Linux and virtual appliances: Five info points”
For all their benefits, virtual appliances still need care and feeding. Linux administrators will need to seek out vendors they can trust. Like any significant investment, research and testing are necessary tools before any mission critical components of the data center are moved over, migrated or put […]
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