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VMware Server 2.0 Beta

Tuesday, 13 November 2007 by Michel Roth

VMware has just released VMware Server 2.0 Beta. Next to bugfixes it has some new features as well, the most important being a Web-based management interface.

All the new Features in VMware Server 2.0 Beta are:

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.

Try out the VMware Server 2.0 Beta 1 at the VMware Server beta site.