I recently found out that ISPs and Managed Service Providers are able to obtain a different licensing schedule from VMWare for hosted services. For some facilities, just starting up, this may be an attractive alternative to VMWare's mainstream licensing policy. Expecting that growth will be a primary driving factor, licensing is based upon a monthly useage fee. One has to become a partner with VMWare in order to take advantage of this program. Continue reading "Migrating a QEMU/KVM Image to VMWare" »