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Free VMware Server in action
We planned to move our physical servers over to virtual VMware machines for quite some time now and finally purchased and set up our new system at the end of last year. As our experience might be useful for some people who plan the same, I decided to describe our solution and comment on the [...]
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Free VMware Server released
Until now, the free VMware Server was only available as a beta, but today VMware Inc. finally released the 1.0 of the product. This makes it possible for ISVs to save money and time by hosting multiple servers on one physical machine and start/stop/control the servers remotely. We have been waiting for the final release [...]
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VMware announces virtual appliance challenge
VMware is announcing their $200.000 Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge. Anyone can submit a self-built virtual appliance and get the chance to win up to $100.000 as the first price. VMware defines a virtual appliance as:
“Virtual Appliances are not general purpose Virtual Machines. They are designed to solve a specific problem and are intended to simplify [...]
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Using VMware Server as our new server platform
When we first heard about the free VMware Server, we got really excited. We have been planning to replace our aging servers with some new hardware and thought about reducing the server count. Besides our internet server which is located at our provider, we have three internal servers working as a file server, intranet and [...]
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Using VMware Player as a marketing tool
The new free VMware Player could be a great tool for ISVs to help prospective customers evaluate their software easier and faster (just as I noted in my last posting). ISVs could offer fully preconfigured virtual machines with their trial software and interested users could get the software up and running in just a minute. [...]
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VMware virtual machines for the masses
VMware Inc. just announced the release of their new product VMware Player. VMware Player can be downloaded for free and lets anyone use preconfigured virtual machines without buying VMware Workstation. For those who do not know what VMware Workstation is, it’s a virtualization software to ‘emulate’ a computer. You can run multiple copies of Windows [...]
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Testing software on multiple platforms
For a welcome change from testing the upcoming SmartInspect release, I decided to write some notes about how we test our software on multiple platforms.
Let’s begin with the simpler part, the SmartInspect Console. Since the tests for the Console are currently not automated, we maintain a large test plan which needs to be executed manually. [...]
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