VMware Announces UVAC Winners 65
muff1253 writes to tell us VMware yesterday announced the winners of the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge (UVAC). The contest, which started at the end of February, was designed to test teams on their ability to create a "pre-built, pre-configured, and ready-to-run" application that could be packaged with operating systems in virtual machines.
For the future (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Umm... why? (Score:5, Interesting)
Basically it gives you a Windows OS with the Firewall and Security power of a Linux based machine...
Kennieth Goodwin (kenny@skyfinet.com)
Take your app + VMware = winner? (Score:3, Interesting)
That's great and all, but wouldnt it work EXACTLY the same if you did an "install with defaults" on your normal system?
Just saying, you might save 500MB, or even 900MB of download in some cases. One is only 3MB, wow!
Re:Umm... why? (Score:2, Interesting)
I want my base OS to stay clean and healthy. I want to test/run/use many different programs, some from sources that I can not trust/will not trust. But these days CPU power is getting cheap and memory is cheap. That is why a virtual machine is usefull. I load a VM with a certain program or set of programs, use it and throw it away when I'm done.
I don't even care that much about runnig two different OSes, most times the OS inside the VM is the same as the host OS.
Re:Umm... why? + IP Stack Differences (Score:1, Interesting)
So, in short, everything is based on what the stack of the packet filtering OS (*NIX) and the standards that it adheres to!
To answer you question about any problems, we are still looking for feedback from the community as far as bugs and what-not go. Also looking for developers. It's been released as Open Source and can be downloaded either from VMware.com or http://sievefirewall.sourceforge.com./ [sievefirew...eforge.com]
Kennieth Goodwin
kenny@skyfinet.com
VMware corporate communication: Clueless. (Score:4, Interesting)
If I didn't already know that VMware is a reputable company, I would never buy anything from a company with such a clueless web site. Obviously someone at VMware thinks that non-technical people have something valuable to contribute to a technical company, even though they cannot understand what they are doing.
Winner: HowNetWorks [vmware.com]
Second Place: Trellis NAS Bridge Appliance [vmware.com].
Third Place: Sieve Firewall [vmware.com]
Re:Umm... why? (Score:3, Interesting)
Reduction in costs is basically saying that some other reason you listed worked. Virtual machines by themselves increase costs by requiring more hardware -- they will never be as fast as native.
Reinstalling OSes shouldn't really be required -- I know we're talking about enterprise, but I haven't really reconfigured the vast majority of my desktop software in something like 6 years and 3 different boxes. When I install a new OS, I copy my old config files over, and tweak things for the new hardware -- the exact same kinds of things I'd have to mess with on the host OS of a virtual machine. Or are you saying you just ran VMWare out-of-the-box on an OEM Windows?
It just makes no sense when for most intents and purposes, you are reinventing things that have existed in Unix for years, if not decades.