[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow for this link. ]
“While Fluid Operations’ Java-based driver is only in
the early stages, and is currently only read-only capable at this
point, this represents some of the very first significant efforts
by the independent Open Source community to provide
interoperability with VMWare’s standards.“VMWare itself has only had a few exploratory forays into Open
Source. In 2006 they opened their Virtual Machine Disk Format
(VMDK) which is used as the file container for all VMWare VMs.
About a year ago, the company released Open-VM-Tools, the
paravirtualization drivers for optimizing video, I/O, network and
mouse operations within a VMWare virtual machine. VMWare recently
announced VMWare View Open Client which enables Linux-based systems
to connect to remote desktops, VMWare has also released the
modifications to GPL/LGPL-licensed components used in their
products, but has fallen short of actually open sourcing their ESX
hypervisor, the crown jewel of the VMWare stack.”