VMware’s Richard Garsthagen and Jeremy van Doorn have a video report from VMworld. They visit several booths at the Solutions Exchange floor and cover:
- Kidaro – An addon product for desktop virtualization that provides central management and intelligent update capabilities for virtual machines. Plus an amazing technology that allows you to integrate applications run in a virtual machine with the actual local desktop. Very simulair to the seamless windows technology from Citrix but then not for a remote session, but for an local isolated session (a VM).
- VMware Fusion – a demonstration of the new upcomming product for the Mac. With VMware Fusion you can run any kind of VM including 64 bit operating systems, have USB 2 support so you can access the iSight camera in your VM and use the bluetooth within any VM to connect to other devices. Can’t wait to have the product released and run it on my Mac.
- Dunes VS-O – Demonstration of the power of Dunes Virtual Service Orchestrator. A powerful graphical programming interface to write your own applications or buy existing Templates like their Desktop Orchestrator to manage VDI (centrally hosted desktop clients) environments. Dunes also just released special pricing for independent developers that want to use their technology.
- Microsoft Virtual Appliance Initiative – An interview with Tony Bailey, the senior product manager of Server Virtualization at Microsoft explaining the new Virtual Appliance Test Drive program from Microsoft. The Test Drive program allows Software Vendors to use the Microsoft Windows operating system in their virtual appliances that they can redistribute to potential customers for evaluation purpose.
