Dear VMware,
In case you hadn’t heard, I wanted to formerly notify you that Microsoft will be releasing its next generation operating system: Windows 7 this month on October 22, 2009. I hope you will be able to make it a supported Guest platform sometime in the near future.
Sincerely,
Ryan
Ok, seriously… I was told by VMware in the spring that Windows 7 would be fully supported in vSphere. To date, I cannot run the vSphere client on my Windows 7 PC without “hacking it.” Likewise, I can’t run Windows 7 RC or RTM as a guest on ESX 3.5 or 4.0 without doing some un-orthodox hassles with different versions of the VMware tools and network adapter drivers. Admitedly, Windows 7 has not been officially released yet… but much of VMware’s target customer spectrum has had access to the RTM now for several weeks. In my organization, we are deploying it both in production and our test labs. Maybe I am being a little harsh on VMware, but beiong that OS virtualziation is their bread and butter, I have an expectation that they would be on top of this (relatively minor) Windows upgrade… especially considering that Microsoft has done a pleanty good job of making sure that IT and Developers have had access to the product and documentation throughout the release schedule.
In the meantime, if you are looking for a business case for Hyper-V, this could be it. Not surprisingly, Windows 7 works right-out-of-the-box.
It’s not just Windows 7, but Windows 2008 R2 as well. R2 and 7 share the same kernel. And the vSphere client fails to run on either 2008 R2 and 7 without hacks.
I would expect that VMware is well aware of this and are preparing to support both 2008 R2 and 7 in a release soon, but it’s more annoying for those of us who may have a need to run either of these versions before the “official” release date.
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