VMware Converter 4.0 Standalone Public Beta Announcement

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Copied below is the email that is going out to announce the public beta for Converter 4.0. 
Follow the instructions to register for the beta and participate.

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VMware Converter 4.0 Standalone Beta Invitation

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Hello,

Thank you for your interest in VMware(R) beta programs. Our upcoming release
of VMware Converter 4.0 Standalone product includes many exciting
enhancements that our customers have been requesting including P2V support
for Linux and Win 2K8 sources, hot cloning enhancements as well as workflow
automation enhancements. We are certain you will find participation in this beta
program a valuable experience. We are looking forward to working closely with
you during this beta program.

As part of this beta, we request you to extensively test several areas of feature
enhancements including P2V support for Linux and Win 2K8 sources, hot
cloning enhancements as well as workflow automation enhancements. Your
active participation in this beta program is critical. We appreciate and value
your efforts to install upon downloading the software and actively provide us
with your valuable product feedback.

~~ Getting Started ~~
If you already have a VMware store account, please follow the link below to
gain access to Converter 4.0 beta software, documentation and join the
Converter 4.0 beta community.

http://www.vmware.com/publicbeta/conv4-beta

If you don’t have a VMware store account, please follow the link below to create
a VMware store account, gain access to Converter 4.0 beta software,
documentation and join Converter 4.0 beta community.

http://www.vmware.com/publicbetanew/conv4-beta

~~ How to Provide Feedback ~~
Your active feedback is much appreciated. Please provide your feedback through
the Converter 4.0 beta community by:

• Filing Support Requests (SRs)
• Participating in Converter 4.0 Beta Forum Discussions on VMware communities site
• Responding to surveys on Converter 4.0 Beta Forum

~~ Support Requests (SRs) ~~
File all issues that you find as Support Requests (SRs), even if you report them to
VMware by other means. SRs should include log files wherever applicable.

Thank you for your participation.

Sincerely,
The VMware Beta Program Team

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This document was generated from the following thread: VMware Converter 4.0 Standalone Public Beta Announcement

[continuum]

Link to download is dead

[vmweathers]

can you give more details on "dead"? I can access both of the links just fine from outside of the corporate network, with my own account and with a new one I created. Maybe it's a permissions issue with some existing users. I'll contact IT.

[vmweathers]

I believe it's fixed now. dconvery on the forums pointed out that on windows the URL is case-insensitive, but on linux it needs to have a lower-case "conv4-beta" suffix.

[aaron_s_andrews]

Im getting 404

[TxSteveO]

So am I!

[husker411]

So am I. Received it at 9:30am CST 11/19/08

[Group_Roctest]

same for me! When i clic on the link in the e-mail, i receive error 404

[benad]

same 404 here. tried uppercase and lowercase. where is the page with the download link?

[benders]

More of the same here.

[Badsah]

Hi, the link works for me at this moment. I can reach the EULA page, agree to the terms, and download the executable. Can everyone try again and tell me if it's working for you?

- Badsah

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Badsah Mukherji

VMware Web Communities Team

[benad]

Just tried, and it's still not working. I get the login page, then a 404.

[husker411]

Hey, I just tried it again and got through this time. The page that the link above directs you to is here:

**Note** I had posted a link here but have now removed it due to the procedural request of the Web Community Team. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

So give it a try. I don't know if it will work for everyone since I just had a friend try it and he was unsuccessful because he's not signed up for the Converter community.

[benad]

The link to communities.vmware.com doesn't work either. It displays a page with "Unauthorized. You do not have the permissions to perform this action or access this page. For further assistance, please contact a VMware Communities moderator."

[husker411]

The culprit may be in VMware's permissions. About 10 minutes ago I got an email saying "Welcome to the VMware Converter 4 Beta Program" from converter4_beta@vmware.com. It's possible that we all were getting the "Unauthorized" errors because we weren't allowed into that portion of VMware's site because VMware might not have processed our registrations requests yet.

Just throwing out possibilities here...

[Badsah]

I believe this is definitely related to registration and permissions. IT is investigating the root cause, so please hold off until we tell you to try again. We are using the accounts of those of you commenting here as test-crash dummies, to identify a pattern. Thanks for your patience, Badsah

P.S. - Don't try to access the community link http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/converter directly without going through one of the two links embedded in the email invitation. There is a mechanism by which we associate your account with the private community automatically, and circumventing that will result in the "Unauthorized" message no matter what you do.

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Badsah Mukherji

VMware Web Communities Team

[husker411]

Badsah,

I went ahead and removed the link in my post above. Again, sorry for the confusion, just trying to help.

James

[Badsah]

No worries. Just preventing people from banging their heads against a wall.

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Badsah Mukherji

VMware Web Communities Team

[VMRiga]

Same for me.

it's still not working. I get the login page (linked from email), then a 404.

Page not found

We were unable to find the document you requested.

[madda]

Doesn't work for me either, 404

[Badsah]

All,

Please stop commenting here and switch to the ongoing thread in the discussion forum, including my latest post which has a list of the possible causes and solutions: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1104742?tstart=0#1104742

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Badsah Mukherji

VMware Web Communities Team

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Badsah Mukherji

VMware Web Communities Team

[Badsah]

For those of you who encountered the "404 error - Page not found"

problem last week, I have good news. IT was able to identify the root

cause and fix the issue over the weekend. Please retry the entire flow

beginning with clicking the appropriate link in your public beta

announcement/invitation email. If you have any questions or issues,

please contact converter4_beta_setup@vmware.com .

Thank you.

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Badsah Mukherji

VMware Web Communities Team

[mikebarnett]

I am trying to access the link above but it appears to be broken:

http://www.vmware.com/publicbeta/conv4-beta

I am getting a Proxy error.

[fbabon]

404 error now.