Second that! Could we have a date or a template please?

Ideally we would like to have a 2.7 release not based on the 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04 LTS which is now EOL

I would like to have some information on whether there will be a next version of VMware studio or not. I am building automation around it create appliances in my env. If there are no further releases planned, I will then have to look for other options.

Bump.  Any more word on this?

Yeah I heard that. it was supposed to be released Q2 2013 and here we are a year later and no news? I was looking forward to the disable screen shot functionality.

I am most concerned about the infrastructure and ovf support becoming out dated.  As it sits, we are stuck at hardware version 7 with studio, ovf version 1.0 (latest release was 2.1 which has a LOT of new features for cloud which we need), I even believe the ubuntu version distributed with 2.6 is no longer supported?  Just like sinharme above, we've invested a lot of time building automation around studio and very soon we will need to break ties if the future of this product is uncertain.  The other VMware products and OVF have just come too far since the last release.  If VMware will no longer make releases, is there any chance of this product being released open source?

Internally there is, what we are calling, a 3.0 build based on the 2.7 plus an upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04x64. Most bits have been revved minus the ovf which was not considered, if adding support for a later ovf release is not too involved then that might be doable. The open source release is not as straight forward as it might appear and given the current resources the only option I can think of for public use would be some non-official release process. I will ask if something like this might be possible.

Sam, I appreciate you looking into these kinds of options and I am looking forward to your response.  At this point I'd be very willing to work with whatever you guys can provide. If there is anything I can do to help as an outsider, or as a VMware Partner, please let me know!  I have certainly made our technical account managers/team aware of our interest.  I am a firm believer that this technology is a DevOps enabler to some of our more atypical and stove-piped environments.  In these environments we cannot rely on either cloud services or toolsets which is the beauty of this approach.  All we need is vSphere or Workstation to deploy our infrastructure as code (which we already have ) as everything else required is completely encapsulated.

Thanks a lot Sam, for the reply.

We are counting on the next release of VMware Studio esp for the revved up baseOS(ubuntu) and support for hardware versions 9 and 10. If you could give an ETA of even un-official release, it will be a great help.

Regards, Harmeet

I'm trying to rev profile ovf support to latest release of of DSP8023 and accompanying schemas such as some from the latest CIM 2.40.0.

Since we are leveraging ovftool we get backwards compatibility from 1.1 back to 1.0 and 0.0. It doesn't appear the 2x version is yet supported so until ovftool provides support for that Studio can't support it as well.

Can you provide what new features you were expecting? You mentioned ovf 2x and cloud, could you provide specifics? As I mentioned, OVF2x is not supported by OVF Tool and I don't believe it is supported yet in other VMware products although I could be wrong on that.

I have a build working based on:

dsp8023.xsd

http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1/dsp8023_1.1.xsd

Document number: DSP8023

Date: 2013-08-22

Version: 1.1.1

and supporting CIM schemas from CIM Schema: Version 2.40.0

http://dmtf.org/standards/cim/cim_schema_v2400

However, this is just the conversion and no *new* features or whatever added to the overall build. It also appears this may require ESXi 5.5 as I had encountered some problems with an earlier 5.1 build I had but it was a very early build. This would also involve updating a build profile for an appliance since the schemas have changed but there is not much to that.

I will ask if there is some release channel that could be used purely for a beta release otherwise the running around with legal and documentation for the official release process could take a substantial amount of time. I still think there would be some legal involved in coming up with a disclaimer stating it is unofficial/unsupported etc.

Thanks, S.D.

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Hi,
Without both ESXi and OVF Tool support for v2.0 Studio can't support it.
The most that we can do is up to 1.1.1 which I have done with the internal build but that would be a start.

S.D.

It's been a few months since the last post. I've only recently come upon Studio and I'm really itching to use it, but I have to have more recent OS support (ideally Ubuntu 12.04 or something recent Debian).

Is this product going to continue to exist? Time isn't my friend so if its another year+ before a release, I have to move on.

Thanks in advance for any info!