Microsoft, VMware Agree: They Better Cooperate
VMware and Microsoft both said they're working behind the scenes to make it easier for virtualization users to migrate across their differing virtualization environments and run each other's virtualized files.
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22.6.2007 Free VMware Server Beta Released
VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today introduced VMware Server, a free new entry-level hosted virtualization product for Linux and Windows servers.
"Virtualization and VMware have become mainstream in the past year, and many customers have deployed thousands of VMware server environments across their enterprises. With VMware Server, we are ensuring that every company interested in, considering or evaluating server virtualization for the first time has access to the industry-leading virtualization technology," said Diane Greene, VMware President. "VMware Server makes it easy and compelling for companies new to virtualization to take the first step toward enterprise-wide virtual infrastructure."
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6.2.2006 Download Chrome OS VMware Image
Its only been a few hours since Google spilled the beans on their upcoming Chrome OS, and now we already have a fully working VMware image of Chrome OS ready for download.
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20.11.2009 Microsoft’s Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back — this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008.
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14.2.2008 Windows will be killed by virtual appliances: VMware exec
Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware executive. Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting virtual appliances.
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16.7.2008 VMware Workstation 7 released with full Windows 7 support
VMware has announced the latest version it's flagship virtualization software - VMware Workstation 7 which is packed full of new features which are huge - including full 3D graphics support for virtual machines.
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2.11.2009 VMware not afraid of upcoming Microsoft Virtual Server Manager
In a phone interview before his presentation at EMC Technology Summit Monday, Raghu Raghuram, vice president of VMware's Platform Products, claimed the company's forthcoming platform upgrade and new consolidation add-on will deliver the most advanced virtualization capabilities in the market.
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30.4.2006 VMWare Private Beta Build 185517 Has Support for Windows Aero
For those of you running Windows Vista or 7 in a virtualization client, I’m sure you miss having the nice, satisfying Windows Aero eye candy, especially with the Aero Basic skin looking the way that it does now.
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1.9.2009 Try Out and Install Windows Vista in Virtual Machine with Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server
Want to install and play with
Windows Vista but don’t have extra or spare computer hardware to load the operating system? Windows Vista addicts can use virtualization technology to create a virtual machine on top of their current operating system which will enable the ability to fresh install Windows Vista on the newly created virtual machine.
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20.11.2006A Switch from VMware Is a Tough Sell
Would you rather fight than switch from VMware vSphere to HyperV or Xen-based implementations? eWEEK Labs compares the benefits and drawbacks of
current virtualization platforms...
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16.07.2009VMware Releases Free Server
Software
VMware on Wednesday released
the final version of its
VMware Server virtualization
product, the successor to GSX
Server. Just like the beta
release that debuted in
February, VMware is making the
software available free of
charge, much like Microsoft
has done with Virtual Server
2005 R2...
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13.07.2006VMware Releases New Converter Tool
VMware on Monday released a
beta version of VMware
Converter 3, a tool that takes
a physical computer system and
transforms it into a virtual
machine image to be used with
the company's products. The
new release combines two
previously separate tools:
VMware P2V Assistant and
Virtual Machine Importer...
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02.10.2006VMware CEO Calls Microsoft No Threat To VMware Virtualization Sales
VMware CEO Paul Maritz said that despite Microsoft entering the virtualization market with its Hyper-V product earlier this year, VMware has not seen
much of an impact on its sales. Maritz made those observations after VMware announced its third-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street
expectations. In the next few months, Maritz said that VMware also plans to update its client management suite.
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22.10.2008Security Vulnerability Found
in VMware
A "very serious"
security vulnerability has
been discovered in VMware's
line of virtual computing
products, including VMware
Workstation, GSX Server, ACE
and VMware Player. The flaw
could enable malware to
effectively "jump"
from the virtual machine onto
the real computer running
VMware software...
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22.12.2005VMware Workstation 5.5 Now
Available
VMware released the latest
version of its VMware
Workstation product on
Wednesday, adding better
support for 64-bit operating
systems and hardware,
experimental support for
two-way SMP, and enhancements
to the virtual machine
importer and command line
interface...
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01.12.2005Mark Russinovich: On Working at MS, Server 2008 Kernel, MinWin vs ServerCore, HyperV and more
Charles Torre: I recently sat down with Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich to dig a bit into what's new in the Windows Server 2008 kernel. Of course,
we talk about many things including HyperV, application virtualization, kernel architecture (not everybody defines an OS kernel in the same way - tune
in to understand why this is the case. Mark has his own definition that may not be the same as yours....).
Recently, the MinWin
project was in the press after a university video lecture by a Microsoft Windows architect was released on the net. Most people immediately confused
MinWin with Windows Server 2008's ServerCore technology - the confusion stems from the incorrect assumption that ServerCore is a byproduct of the
MinWin work. In fact, they are not at all related. Mark explains the differences and hopefully this will end the confusion...
Of
course, Mark spends time on the whiteboard in this interview, drawing out the kernel architecture, explaining HyperV, touching on application
virtualization (running client applications without having to install them locally - tune in to understand what I mean...).
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15.12.2007VMware Forms Virtualization
Alliance
Banding together with
companies such as IBM, HP,
Hitachi and Sun, VMware
announced Monday the creation
of the Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure Alliance. The
group will help VMware promote
its virtualization solutions,
and the company will work with
each partner to build joint
offerings...
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25.04.2006VMware ACE Beta to Ease Management
VMware has launched a beta of
product that allows IT
administrators to centrally
manage and control virtual
machines installed on PCs on
their network. Called VMware
ACE, the application also
includes the ability to place
a virtual machine on just
about any storage device...
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05.03.2007VMware Launches Free Server
Beta
As expected, VMware on Monday
introduced VMware Server, the
successor to GSX Server. The
company hopes that by giving
away its entry-level product,
it will drive users to upgrade
to its for-pay ESX Server, as
well as position the company
as the leader in
virtualization technology...
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06.02.2006Intel Takes Minority Stake in VMware
Showing just how hot the
virtualization market has
become, Intel has taken a
minority stake in VMware, now
owned by enterprise storage
company EMC. Intel is
investing $218.5 million for
2.5 percent of all outstanding
VMware common stock, and will
gain control of one board
seat...
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09.07.2007VMware Ships Free Virtual
Machine App
VMware on Wednesday introduced
VMware Player, a free tool
that enables users to run
virtual machines on a Linux or
Windows PC. The company says
that the program would be
ideal for those beta testing
software, or evaluating
pre-built application
environments. The release of
the Player comes during
VMworld...
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21.10.2005VMware to debut new hypervisor April 21
VMware on April 21 will release highly anticipated vSphere software, the next generation of its flagship virtualization engine, according to VMware
business partner Unisys.
VMware has promised to reveal "significant product news" on that date and is holding a Webcast in
which it will explain how "virtualization is about to take another giant leap."
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14.04.2009VMware Releases Fusion
VMware has announced the
general availability of
VMware
Fusion, which allows Mac
users to simultaneously run
Mac OS X, Windows and other
PC-based applications on
Intel-based Macs. The
alternative is restarting to
run Windows and Windows
applications, as Apple's Boot
Camp software mandates.
The software
allows Mac users to run both
32- and 64-bit operating
systems, using two processor
cores at the same time, and a
variety of USB 2.0 devices,
according to the company.
VMware also claimed that
Fusion is also the only Mac
virtualization software
available today to provide
support for over 60 operating
systems and power management
capabilities to safeguard
virtual machines when laptops
are running out of battery.
VMware
claimed over 250,000 downloads
of VMware Fusion since its
beta became available in
December 2006...
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02.08.2007VMware Completes Mac Virtualization Software
VMware on Thursday announced
it has completed development
of "Fusion," the
company's desktop
virtualization software for
Macs, which enables Apple
computers to run Windows or
Linux from within Mac OS X.
VMware said over 250,000
people had downloaded the
Fusion beta release since
December...
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02.08.2007Cisco Invests $150 Million in VMware
Following in the footsteps of
Intel, Cisco will acquire 1.6
percent of virtualization
company VMware from parent EMC
for $150 million in cash.
Unlike Intel, Cisco will not
receive a board seat, but
VMware said it would consider
appointing a Cisco executive
to its board in the future...
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27.07.2007VMware to get hypervisor certified by Microsoft
Virtualization competitors VMware and Microsoft have found common ground in a deal that will let customers receive technical support for Microsoft
applications running on servers virtualized with VMwares hypervisor.
There doesnt seem to be any official announcement, but a
Microsoft spokeswoman said Tuesday that VMware has joined Microsofts Server Virtualization Validation Program. This means that VMware will try to get
its hypervisor certified by Microsoft, and once that happens Microsoft will offer technical support for Microsoft applications running on VMware
servers. Its not clear when those support plans would become available.
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20.08.2008VMware urges its customers to conjure up their own clouds
There's the public cloud and the private cloud, but VMware eyes something in between.
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25.02.2009VMware Workstation 7 released with full Windows 7 support
VMware has announced the latest version it's flagship virtualization software - VMware Workstation 7 which is packed full of new features which
are huge - including full 3D graphics support for virtual machines. VMware workstation is compatible with over 20 operating systems out of the box,
and can run many other operating systems unofficially. As previously mentioned, the new VMware workstation comes with full 3D graphics support for
guest operating systems - meaning that if your computer can't play a game, but has the resources to run a virtual operating system well, you can
run an earlier version of Windows (or Linux) to play it.
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02.11.2009VMware Adds Cloud, Desktop Infrastructure to its Virtualization Roadmap
As the 2008 VMworld conference kicks off, VMware is detailing a new roadmap that will take the company beyond virtualization as a server and data
center infrastructure consolidation tool and into the world of cloud computing. VMware executives believe that they will be able to offer a
combination of virtualization software and services that will allow an enterprises data center to resemble what Google has done. VMware is also
looking enhance its ability with desktop virtualization.
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