VMTN Blog

Bob Roudebush gives his list of the most interesting news from VMworld, including

• Lab Manager ("Especially interesting: Multiple remote control sessions through the browser interface and the network fencing functionality which keeps test machines from creating conflicts with one another and other machines on the production environment."),
• Virtual Appliances,
• Workstation 6.0 ("I don’t want to come across sounding like a VMware fanboy, but there really is nothing else to do but gush over the progress the development teams have made on this product. While products like Virtual PC have sat stagnate for years, VMW 6 has a list of new functionality that is literally two pages long."), and
• VMware on the Mac.

Brian Berliner gives a wrap-up that lists

• Workstation 6.0 ("The killer feature here is the Record/Replay capability. Nice."),
• ACE 2.0 ("There is absolutely big money to be made here, as IT environments continue to pendulum swing of distributed vs centralized administration and the need to reduce the amount of human time consumed by client administration and maintenance."), 
• the Virtual Appliances Marketplace ("After all, who really wants to install 10 different open source applications just to be able to test out your particular solution?"),
• AMD & Intel's upcoming virtualized memory management, and
• Lab Manager.