[sles-beta] [ANNOUNCE] VMDP 2.2 Beta is available

[Michal Svec]

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Dear Beta participants,

we are happy to announce

 	SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack 2.2 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 2.2 are:
   - Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
   - Support for new Microsoft Windows releases:
     - Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
     - Microsoft Windows 8.1
   - Simplified hypervisor migration

ISO images are now available for download now. 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 is available
for download in four formats:
  * Windows self-extracting zip file (.exe)
  * Virtual floppy disk (.vfd) for Windows XP and 2003
  * ISO image (.iso) for Windows 2008 and newer
  * RPM package for V2V conversion purposes
  - Both the vfd and iso are for virtio boot disk driver installation
    at Windows KVM VM creation time

Please verify the md5sum of the downloaded files using the 
vmdp-140227_sums file, which can be found in the same directory
on the download servers.

Thanks in advance for all your testing

         Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team



-- 
Michal Svec
Senior Product Manager
SUSE Linux Enterprise, Virtualization
SUSE, www.suse.com