VMware Server 2.0 Beta (for Windows & Linux Systems)

Latest Version: Beta | 11/13/07 | Build 63231

What’s New

New features and enhancements in the VMware Server Beta 1 release:

  • Web-based management interface: A new Web-based user interface provides a simple, flexible, intuitive and productive way for you to manage your virtual machines.
  • Expanded operating system support: VMware Server now supports Windows Vista Business Edition and Ultimate Edition (guest only), Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server Beta 3), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Ubuntu 7.1, among others.
  • Greater scalability: Take full advantage of high-end hardware with support for up to 8GB of RAM per virtual machine, up to two virtual SMP (vSMP) processors and up to 64 virtual machines per host.
  • 64-bit guest operating system support: Run high-performance operating systems in virtual machines with support for Intel EM64T VT-enabled processors and AMD64 processors with segmentation support.
  • Support for VIX API 1.2: This feature provides a programming interface for automating virtual machine and guest operations.
  • Support for Virtual Machine Interface (VMI): This feature enables transparent paravirtualization, in which a single binary version of the operating system can run either on native hardware or in paravirtualized mode.
  • Support for USB 2.0 devices: Transfer data at faster data rates from USB 2.0 devices.

VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 2

Quote van de VMware Website:

VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 2 release includes all the fixes from the VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 1 release and also includes fixes for certain globalization issues. These globalization fixes are primarily for the Japanese and German releases of VirtualCenter.

This release is intended for any customer who is installing the English version of VirtualCenter on a non-English operating system. Customers using the English version of VirtualCenter on an English operating system can upgrade to either VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 1 or VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 2. Both of these Update releases cover the same set of resolved/known issues with the exception of the globalization fixes present in Update 2.

This maintenance release includes changes to VirtualCenter Management Server and VI Client software. If you upgrade a VirtualCenter Server host using this maintenance release, you must also upgrade all VI Client hosts. You can upgrade the Windows client hosts by downloading the software from an upgraded VirtualCenter Server host, or by selecting VI Client from the VirtualCenter installation startup page.

Lees hier de release notes: http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/releasenotes_vc202u2.html

En download de update hier: http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/

Bron: http://blogs.vmware.com/news/2007/11/vmware-virtualc.html