A little more than a week and the Dutch VMware Usergroup (VMUG) Event 2008 will set off. The current registered number of attendees exceeds 500 already.

A sneakpreview for what is going to happen on the 12th of December at Nieuwegein (near Utrecht in the Netherlands):

18 different breakout sessions; Appealing [...]

VKernel today released version 2 of SearchMyVM, the free “Google-like” search utility that quickly helps you find information within your rapidly expanding VMware ESX environments. This new version includes the #1 feature you asked for — the ability to export searches to CSV format reports that you can print, email, and use [...]

Bob Plankers from lone sysadmin mentioned that VMware only will support 64-bit hardware for the host in future releases. Begin quote: Future versions of VMware ESX/ESXi will only run on 64-bit-capable CPUs.

You will still be able to run 32-bit guest OSes, but the ESX console OS will only work on CPUs capable [...]

From VMBlog

In case you hadn’t heard the news yet, The Brian Madden Company has just been acquired by TechTarget, Inc.  Madden has been covering Citrix technology for a while now, even before the whole Virtualization craze when it was just plain old application presentation — not quite as cool as today’s application virtualization [...]

Some time ago VMware together with Intel and AMD announced that they were taking steps towards enabling cross-platform vmotions. The intention was to move a vm from one host (intel) to another host (amd) with vmotion technology. The companies now announced they dismiss their plans towards cross-migration plans. The reason why this effort is currently [...]