A SimDK Virtual Appliance

11Mar10

I am overwhelmed and flattered by the tremendous interest in SimDK. Due to the high barrier of entry at this early stage in SimDK’s development, I’ve created a Virtual Appliance with SimDK preinstalled (a dirty, dark secret about me — I know nothing about Virtual Appliances or how to create them, so bear with me […]

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Tags: esx, simdk, simulation, vcenter4, virtual appliance, virtualization, vsphere4

SimDK

09Mar10

A few years ago, after writing my whitepaper on VMware Infrastructure (VI) plug-ins, I was fortunate enough to visit the VMware campus and meet several of their engineers. I mentioned to them that it would be nice to have a VMware Infrastructure simulator to develop against for when a full VMware installation was not available. […]

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Tags: emulation, hyper9, java, simdk, simulation, virtualization, xen