Erfolgsmeldungen fuer SLES und RedHat liegen vor.
Der download der Version 4 beta ist extrem gut versteckt - siehe
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/179306?tstart=0
Der neue Converter hat zum Beispiel ein super feature: ein convertiertes System kann man jetzt per UNC-path auf einer lokalen USB-platte speichern - man muss dazu als target zum Beispiel
\\127.0.0.1\f$\
angeben
Was sich die VMware - engineers dabei gedacht haben ist mir ein Raetsel -
ebenso kann ich in keiner Weise nachvollziehen warum ein Tool
das gerade gar nicht benutzt wird 150 MB RAM benoetigt ....
Hier ein Auschnitt aus der Propaganda - abteilung
Introduction to VMware Converter 4.0 Beta 1
VMware Converter provides an easy-to-use, scalable solution for migrations of machines, both physical to virtual and virtual to virtual. With its comprehensive and comprehensible wizards and task manager, VMware Converter converts virtual machines faster, with fewer manual steps required, and fewer source hardware limitations than other methods. With its ability to perform hot cloning, VMware Converter can convert to a virtual machine with no downtime on the source system.
VMware Converter eases interoperability among VMware hosted products (Workstation, VMware Server, VMware Player, and Fusion), unmanaged ESX Server 3.x, ESX Server 3i Embedded, ESX Server 3i Installable, and ESX Server 3.x, ESX Server 3i Embedded, ESX Server 3i Installable managed by VirtualCenter 2.x.
What's New
The VMware Converter 4.0 Beta 1 release has several new features, including:
* Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu) as source
* Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Windows Server 2008 as source
* Support for converting new third-party image formats, including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft
* Workflow automation enhancements to include automatic source shutdown, destination start-up as well as shut down one or more services at source and start up services at Windows destination
* Power off source machine when conversion is finished
* Hot cloning improvements for cloning any changes to the source system during the P2V conversion process
* Target disk selection, and ability to specify how the volumes will be laid out in the new destination virtual machine
* Destination virtual machine configuration, including CPU, memory, and disk controller type
* Known issues described in the Known Issues section
The following features are no longer supported:
* NT4 hot cloning
* ESX Server 2.5 destinations
