Virtually There

I have been keeping friends a bit in the dark about this new job I started at the end of August. Now's the day when all is revealed...

I'm at VMware's VMworld 2007 conference in San Francisco. There is a variety of VMware news that might be considered "big", but the biggest from my perspective is the open-sourcing of much of VMware Tools, the tools that run inside the guest operating system to make the guest run better and handle the guest-side integration with the host OS. Think drag-and-drop between guest & host, automatic clock synchronization, etc...

The new project, Open Virtual Machine Tools is not such big news as far as the open source community , but VMware is big enough that this small change should matter to quite a few people. For example, I just ran into Marty Wesley of rPath, and no doubt the hackers over there will be very happy to hear this announcement, since it will make their work easier. And I get to help increase the amount of open source software, which is partly why I came here. :)

There is plenty of work to be done on all fronts, so if you're interested in joining in, make sure to sign up for the mailing lists.