This morning Mike Laverick and I sat side to side blogging live at the Wednesday keynote. We were not the only live bloggers. The others are Scott Lowe, Bob Plankers , Bouke Groenescheij, Viktor van den Berg and Alessandro Perilli. The frist keynote was a bit boring and Mr. Chambers from Cisco talked like he was standing in a church ;-) . At the end of the keynotes and the discussion panel I grabbed my recording device and asked Mike Laverick from RTFM-Education a few questions. You will hear all about the keynote and when we can expect the VI 3book !!! Use this link to listen to the interview.The professional photographer Viktor van den Berg shoot some really nice pictures today.
Wednesday, September 12. 2007
Mike Laverick about the BOOK !!!
VMware Worldwide Academic Program
At VMworld 2007, VMware, Inc., the virtualization leader, today announced that more than 300 academic institutions are participating in its Academic Program in which its products and resources are available free-of-charge to qualified academic institutions for research and teaching and its source code is made available to qualified academic institutions for research and publication.
Opening keynote John Chambers
Prior to the keynote, VMware showed a great video clip. It’s a song called “If the server goes down? it ‘s also the winner of the VMworld 2007 video contest. John Chambers the CEO of Cisco systems delivered the first keynote and talked about the fundamental shift in the IT industry. He emphasized the importance of a good CEO that must have a clear vision and a good reaction on market transitions. John expects a second innovation that will be driven on new inventions. At the end of his speech there was a great applause.
VMware Unveils VMware Tools as Open Source
Linux Vendors Now Enabled to Integrate VMware Tools into Operating Systems. SAN FRANCISCO, September 11, 2007 — VMware, Inc., the virtualization leader, today at VMworld 2007 announced that it has released a majority of VMware Tools as open source software as part of the project Open Virtual Machine Tools. VMware Tools is a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and improve management of VMware virtual machines. Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) is hosted at http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net, and the source code is available today to enable Linux vendors to integrate open-sourced VMware Tools into upcoming versions of their operating...
The man behind the virtual MAC tool
It took a while but finally I met Robert Baumstark. The creator of the virtual MAC tool is running his weblog on the Virtual Rob weblog. Rob is an infrastructure specialist at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Canada where he is responsible for keeping the place running. He is the one who has built the VIClient.dll and helped me tremendously. I created a new version of the Virtual Machine MKS Client, this version has better sizing, very handy when working on a small desktop. I conducted an interview about the future of the viclient.dll.
Tuesday, September 11. 2007
VMworld 2007 Day One Video
I created a video compilation of the events that took place in the Moscone Convention Center San Francisco. You can watch how we enjoyed our breakfast, a part of the keynote, the exhibition, Bouke Groenescheij ;-) the lunch and two sessions. Please visit my YouTube page to watch the video footage.