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VMware Converter Beta

Friday, 01 December 2006 by Michel Roth

Geert Baeke has written a small review on the VMware Converter Beta. Now I absolutely love this free (!) tool (only the Starter edition is free) and use it a lot in my home lab environment. Too bad Longhorn and Vista do not seem to be supported yet. Geert however isn't as enthusiastic as I am and thinks the Enterprise Edition should be free as well:

"Recently, I downloaded and tried VMware Converter Beta. It is VMware's new P2V (and V2V) product. This publicly available download is the Starter Edition and is free to use. There is also an Enterprise edition with additional features."

"VMware Converter looks promising but VMware should make the enterprise flavour free as well and this for several reasons. The first reason is that P2V in itself is not what matters most. Granted, it is an important process in a virtualization project but in the end, it is the virtualization itself and the management of the virtualized environment that counts. Secondly, the product only makes P2V just a bit easier. With some 3rd party imaging tools and VMware's Virtual Machine Importer 2.0, you can also achieve the same end result."

Read his entire review here.