VMware Server 2.0 Beta
VMware Server 2.0 Beta is now available. See the release notes and beta community for more information.
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.
Hi,
I've a question about VMWare Server 2.0 product roadmap:
> What is the expected end date for the Beta program ?
I'm a current user of the Beta 2 version, and I guess that a few more development cycles are planned. I'd like to know when the "official" release will be available.
Regards,
Vlad
Posted by: Vlad C. | April 15, 2008 at 06:52 AM