VMware Converter 4.0 Standalone Public Beta Announcement

[vmweathers]

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.

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.

~~ 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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[lancedeutscher]

The links go to a web based outlook.

[vmweathers]

Thanks Lance for informing me, I fixed them. For what it's worth, the URLs in the text work should have worked all along, it's just that the underlying link in them was wrong, from Firefox being "smart" as I copy-and-pasted the email into this forum.

[continuum]

Can someone please fix all the dead links here ?

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description of vmx-parameters:

VMware-liveCD:

[dconvery]

Yes - the first link goes to a 404 page and the second link is for new user registration. Still can't find the Converter bits....

Dave

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"There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed."

despair.com

[vmweathers]

I do not understand why you 2 are seeing issues with the links. They both work for me, both from inside of our corporate network and outside. IT did say there might be some disturbance today due to an upgrade, but you two posted 3 hours apart so it seems unlikely that any such disturbance would persist for so long.

Unfortunately those are the only 2 links I have. I'll contact the IT guys and see if they know why you might be getting 404 pages.

[dconvery]

Try this ->

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

It is case sensitive.....

Better yet ->

http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/converter

Dave

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"There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed."

despair.com

[dconvery]

Just to update some more... My primary OS is Ubuntu Linux, from there, the url is case sensitive. From winders, it adjusts the case for you. Go figure.

Dave

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"There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed."

despair.com

[RDPetruska]

Can someone please fix all the dead links here ?

The links all worked for me here (on Nov. 13th, 11 AM EST), WinXP SP3 host, IE7. Like I always say - if you want something to work, use Windows.

[vmweathers]

Thanks for pointing this out Dave. I've corrected the URLs to have a lower-case "conv4-beta" suffix.

[dconvery]

I just looked at the welcome email> it should be corrected as well.

Dave

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"There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed."

despair.com

[gkasica]

Neither of the links is working as of today (11/18/08 @ 900am CST) the first

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

gives a 404 page not found error

and the second

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/mgmt/converter

gives

Unauthorized

You do not have the permissions to perform this action or access this page.

For further assistance, please contact a VMware Communities moderator.

even though I'm signed in to my vmStore account at the time.

Any suggestions on how to go about getting the beta bits???

[robstarox]

Same here, it doesnt work...whats up with that?

[bobbarjung]

Can you please try again. Both the links seem to be working now.

Deepak.

[Fishscene]

First link does not work (same 404 that others are getting).

11/18/08_6:37pm Pacific

[jasonms]

Same here. The beta community link gives me an authorization error, as well.

[dconvery]

If you get a not authorized message go to the second link http://www.vmware.com/publicbetanew/conv4-beta and register

Dave

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"There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed."

despair.com

[robstarox]

Im already registered .... Dont you think we thought of that already?????

[djpark]

I'm having the same problem as well - the first link does not work in IE or Firefox, case-sensitive or all lower case. 404 Page Not Found.

Since I am already registered, the second link for "New Registration" errors out saying that I am already registered.

[abacus_sns]

I am getting the 404 error too. From both IE and Firefox.

I would really like to try this out.