[sles-beta] [ANNOUNCE] VMDP 2.1 Beta available

[Michal Svec]

Dear Beta Tester,

we are happy to announce

         SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack 2.1 Beta

SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack (VMDP) contains
disk and network device drivers for Microsoft Windows Operating
Systems that enable the high performance hosting of the unmodified
guests on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Supported host operating systems are SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 SP4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 or later. SUSE Linux
Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack contains paravirtualized
drivers for both KVM and Xen hypervisors, available as part of our
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server product.

The key updates in version 2.1 are:
   - Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
   - Support for new Microsoft Windows releases:
     - Microsoft Windows Server 2012
     - Microsoft Windows 8
   - SCSI pass-through support

The files are now available for download. Please go to
http://www.novell.com/beta and select "View My Beta Page".
Here you should see all Beta's you are part of.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack downloads
are in the same directory as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3,
please select the respective Beta in order to download it.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack is available
for download in three formats:
  - Windows self-extracting zip file (.exe)
  - virtual floppy disk (.vfd) for Windows XP and 2003
  - ISO image (.iso) for Windows 2008 and newer

Please verify the md5sum of the downloaded files using the md5
files, which can be found in the same directory on the download
servers.

Thanks in advance for all your testing

         Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team

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