VMware Converter Update

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in Virtualization by slowe | 2 comments

Via Eric Sloof, I learned that VMware has released a minor update to VMware Converter, bringing it up to version 3.0.3.

This updates bring a number of fixes and some new features. One of the most notable new features is support for the creation of Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) version 0.9. This means that you can create a VM in VMware Infrastructure, then use VMware Converter to export it into an OVF virtual appliance bundle for distribution. This might be distribution to other organizations or individuals, or it might simply be distribution to a different location within your organization.

For more details, have a look at the release notes for this latest update.

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  1. Henk’s avatar

    Henk on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:49 am

    One of the best features (imo) is:

    convert individual volumes on a single physical disk from the source physical machine to separate and independent virtual disks across different datastores

    Hope this will be available in Converter 4 soon…

  2. JB’s avatar

    JB on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 6:08 am

    The new 3.0.3 version is excellent, even though it is a ‘point’ upgrade, I’d consider it a very nice enhancement to 3.0.2-U1…

    There are a host of fixed and new things but the biggest one for me (which admittedly I haven’t tested yet) is the ability to handle Windows software RAID without having to break the mirrors first (some people back in the late 90’s thought the crappy MS software raid was a high-availability sensible solution)…

    Any news on what will be in v4 ??