VMware Player 3 has a bundle of new features:
JumpBox Omeka Amazon AMI & VMware VM pricing
The VI-Toolkit.com website has been created by Wil van Antwerpen in order to be able to store knowledge about Virtual Infrastructure and related VMware products.
At start, the site this will contain lots of links to information on the internet and have general information about how-to solve particular problems, but over time the intention is to move the focus slightly over to managing your Virtual Infrastructure using the toolkits available from VMware.
vCloud Express is the first VMware-based cloud hosting infrastructure that can be purchased, consumed and adjusted similarly to Amazon’s EC2 offering.
Now you can download trial versions of Windoz from within VMware Fusion by downloading pre-packaged Windoz virtual machines from M$.
The trials are time limited from 30 days to 3 months.
JumpBox and teamed up with Genesis Hosting to provide outsourced VMware ESX hosting for your JumpBox software appliances !
Genesis Hosting also provide dedicated and shared VMware ESX hosting for everybody
BlueLock has created a VMware based managed cloud hosting solutions that promise high availability, fanatical expert support and a more scalable and cost-efficient operating model for your IT infrastructure without sacrificing security or performance.
Howto install AsteriskNow & TrixBox as MAC OS/X VMware fusion virtual machines / software appliances
First DO NOT choose RedHat at your guest OS or your VOIP PBX VM wont recognise the VMware SCSI disk ! You must choose RHEL5 as your guest OS so that scsi0.virtualDev = “lsilogic” is added to your guest VMX file. There’s the danger of Wizards for you !
Both AsteriskNow and Trixbox are based on CentOS 5 with linux kernel 2.6.18.
AsteriskNow has a GUI installer so you can replace the default LVM partitions with standard linux partitions if you wish.
TrixBox has a TEXT installer.
VMware Fusion 2.0.3 now available for MAC OS X
VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update 4 has a new VMXNET version that improves virtual machine networking performance and requires VMware tools upgrade.