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Website Tip: VM4All.com

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A small pointer to an online resource you may find to be very useful: courtesy of Eric Sloof from The Netherlands, you can browse a complete repository of VMware tools at VM4All.com, including their licensing terms, description, creator credits and link to download / maker.

From the about page:

VMware’s virtualization technology has become the industry standard for virtualization in the enterprise. More and more people are writing software based on the SDK and created a lot of little handy tools. On the other side there are some larger company’s who also created all kinds of applications to support VMware ESX server and Virtual Center. The vm4all.com website provides a complete list of all these tools and applications.

Baseline: 10 Free Virtualization Tools You Should Know

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Baseline published an interesting list of “10 free virtualization tools you should know” on its website.

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The list in full:

  1. OpenVZ (Parallels) – also check out our video interview with Werner Fisher from Thomas-Krenn.AG on OpenVZ
  2. FreeVPS (Positive Software)
  3. Sun xVM (Sun Microsystems, who wants to equip Web 2.0 startups with “SAMP”)
  4. VirtualBox (innotek, recently acquired by Sun)
  5. PlateSpin Power Recon (PlateSpin, recently acquired by Novell)
  6. Vizioncore vOptimizer Free Ware (Vizioncore, recently acquired by Quest)
  7. Virtual Iron Single Server Edition (Virtual Iron)
  8. Enomalism Virtualized Management Dashboard – VMD (Enomaly)
  9. Microsoft Virtual Server Migration Toolkit – VSMT (Microsoft) – also check out our video interview with Mike Neil, Virtual Machine Technologies Product Unit Manager at Microsoft
  10. Moka5 LivePC Engine (Moka5)

Techtrob: Virtualization in Linux – Four Software Programs Reviewed

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Techtrob.com analyzed four software choices for linux driven virtualization platforms, now that Canonical completely supports the use of Parallels software in Ubuntu Linux. The article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels Workstation.

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Recommmended reading, includes screenshots for easy comparison!

Here’s their conclusion:

This article looked at four different products for virtualization in Linux, specifically Ubuntu Linux. The findings were interesting – the only product that requires the purchase of a licence for personal use, Parallels, actually performed the worst of the group. Qemu did well for a completely free-as-in-speech application, although VMware and VirtualBox blew the competition away in terms of performance.

Of these applications, VMware and VirtualBox definitely come out the clear winners. For individual use, where the ability to run a single Windows desktop inside of Linux is all that is needed, VirtualBox turns out to be my preference. It’s much smaller than VMware, which comes packed with extra features that aren’t necesary for the end-user. If your needs are different, however, you’ll probably want to give VMware a closer look. Overall, the maturaty and stability of all four applications was impressive enough to call virtualization on the Linux desktop “complete.”