VMware has updated their VMware Tools EULA, effective immediately. This change makes it legal to redistribute the VMware Tools package inside a pre-packaged appliance as long as the base OS is Linux. This is a welcomed change that should make it easier to pre-package the tools package inside distributed appliances.
This change does not, however, allow the tools to be redistributed in an appliance running on Microsoft Windows, but the legal implications of redistributing an appliance with a Windows base is far more involved than just the VMware tools package.
I wonder what Microsoft is really thinking with regards to distributed appliances. It's a market they seem to be totally ignoring so far, which really isn't surprising as none of the Microsoft licensing models would allow people to create appliances, based on Windows, for redistribution.
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VirtuaMag.net, on January 1, 1970 at 1:00am, said:
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virtualization.info, on August 26, 2006 at 9:13pm, said:
however, allow the tools to be redistributed in an appliance running on Microsoft Windows, but the legal implications of redistributing an appliance with a Windows base is far more involved than just the VMware tools package.... Read the whole article at source.
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h0bbel, on August 31, 2006 at 12:07am, said:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2006/08/vmware_relaxes_1.html has posted nearly the exact same thing, only two days after I did. Oh well.
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coComment - Site comments by h0bbel, on March 16, 2007 at 10:32am, said:
View this article on its blog
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VMTN Blog, on March 21, 2007 at 8:11am, said:
[...] ultramookie: Speed Up VMware Server Guests. Don't forget to install VMware Tools! Even if you don't think you need the utilities, you get other benefits. And remember also that VMware Tools may now be included in downloadable appliances. [...]
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VMware Tools en Gennio, on June 3, 2007 at 5:22am, said:
[...] Gennes VMware relaxes VMware Tools EULA - h0bbelVMware has updated their VMware Tools EULA, effective immediately. This change makes it legal to [...]
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VirtuaMag.net, on August 2, 2007 at 2:46pm, said:
Enomalism Virtualized Management Console : open source Xen beheerplatform 25 août 2006 Het Enomalism Virtualized Management Console (VMC) is een open source web-based systeembeheer tool voor de XEN hypervisor. De Hypervisor is de...VMware relaxes VMware Tools EULA25 août 2006 VMware has updated their VMware Tools EULA, effective immediately. This change makes it legal to redistribute the VMware Tools package inside a... Amazon.com’s EC2 hosting service
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