Wie heise soeben berichtet, hat VMware eine Beta des VMware Server 2 herausgebracht.

Hier die neuen Features:

• 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.

[Quelle: http://www.vmware.com/beta/server/]

Auf den Ersten Blick sind nicht alle neuen Features wirklich so neu.

Web-based management interface: Gab es vorher schon, klar, das Neue wird bunter und intuitiver sein, aber ein neues Feature ist das nicht.

Expanded operating system support: Einige Neue Windows- und Linux-Versionen werden unterstützt, das ist natürlich schön- aber das erwarte ich doch auf von einer Software, deren Hauptzweck das ist.

Ich werde das bei Gelegenheit mal installieren.

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