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VMware Communities: VMware Converter 4.0 Standalone Public … is the link to the VMware Communities web page with information for signing up for the VMware Converter 4.0 public beta. I first heard about this from Eric Sloof’s NTPRO.NL blog last week, but I’ve actually downloaded the stand alone beta version and will be experimenting with it this week. From the Communities page, here are the instructions for signing up.

~~ 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

These links have been randomly available. In fact, when I tried last week i was unable to access these pages, but today I was able to get through and download the users guide, release notes, and both the Windows and Linux versions of converter.

The Release Notes describe some exciting nw features.

What’s NewThe VMware Converter 4.0 Beta 1 release has several new features, including:

• Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE, and
  Ubuntu) as source
• Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Windows Server 2008 as
  source
• Support for converting new third-party image formats, including Parallels
  Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft
• Workflow automation enhancements to include automatic source shutdown,
  destination start-up as well as shut down one or more services at source and
  start up services at Windows destination
• Power off source machine when conversion is finished
• Hot cloning improvements for cloning any changes to the source system during
  the P2V conversion process
• Target disk selection, and ability to specify how the volumes will be laid
  out in the new destination virtual machine
• Destination virtual machine configuration, including CPU, memory, and disk
  controller type

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