Anyone have any luck registering on the VMWare site?
Keep throwing an error upon submitting the registration
form.
I have the same problem, tried the site in both IE and
firefox but looks like an internal error.
Oh well I suppose I should have known that a 'free'
product would have been too much to ask for.
'too much to ask for', opps I meant 'too good to be
true'
Yeah, same problem here. My guess is their servers were
overflooded with registration requests :)
Managed to register after several tries, and was
rewarded with a Download page--which lead to DNS lookup
errors. Persistance paid off, though, until I read the
license agreement, which contains the following:
TERM AND TERMINATION.
Licensee's rights with respect to the Beta Software will
terminate upon the earlier of (a) the initial commercial
release by VMware of a generally available version of
the Beta Software or (b) automatic expiration of the
Beta Software based on the system date....
I guess what they are offering for
"free" is the opportunity to
participate in a time-limited beta-test of the product
that will succeed GSX server. I am not sure that I
regard that is either "free" or even
anything out of the ordinary--they have always had a
program allowing people to test beta versions of the
software without charge to the tester. Alas, I guess
this is just marketing hype.... We shall see.
Just got the server download. Don't know if it is any
good. They key seems to be to keep on trying--their
servers are undoubtedly overloaded, so persistance may
pay off.
By the way, it's early Monday Morning as I write this
(in Boston, MA).
This is good news indeed. I've been wanting to use
VMWare products for a while now. However, keep in mind,
it will not be totally free... as per the fact, only
support contract subscribers will receive updates to the
product, for the most part. Otherwise, this is great
news.
Q: Will patches and new releases for VMware Server be
provided for free in the future?
A: Generally available VMware Server patches, minor and
major releases will be provided by VMware on a regular
basis only to customers that have purchased a VMware
Server Support and Subscription contract. At a later
time, VMware may, at its discretion, include the
functionality improvements contained in these patches,
minor and major releases in the freely downloadable
product.
Thanks,
Shawn
Just downloaded it and it installed flawlessly on my
gentoo box netbooted from an ATAoE SAN using kernel
2.6.15.2. Congrats to VMware for making this happen,
could be a very good business strategy if people flock
to VMware products and support contracts.
Does anybody know if VMware produces proper patches for
its current line up. E.g. GSX server, workstations etc?
Every time I want to update one of these products I have
to delete my current installation and then install the
new version. As you can imagine this is not exactly
ideal.
Or do you need some sort of expensive support contract
to get access to the patches like what is indicated for
VMware Server Beta above?