The VMguy

VMware studio is a great tool to package up applications into multi vm configurations for distribution. You can find out more information on the Studio section of the VMware website.  You can find the new download here.

Here’s the what new from the release notes:

The following features were added between VMware Studio 1.0 and 2.0:

• Ability to create multiple-VM appliances, or vApps, to run on VMware vSphere.
• More provisioning engines including ESX/ESXi 3.5 and 4, VMware Workstation 6.5.1, and VMware Server 2.0.
• Build support for Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) virtual appliances.
• Build support for 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES).
• Build support new Linux distributions RHEL 5.3, CentOS 5.3, and Ubuntu 8.04.1.
• Extensible management services allow you to customize an interface into a new tab.
• An Eclipse™ plug-in helps you package applications and create management services.
• Automatic dependency resolution for application packages installed on Linux-based virtual appliances.
• Existing VM build (input-as-VM) for Linux virtual appliances.
• DMTF standard OVF 1.0 and open virtual appliance (OVA) packaging. VMware Studio 1.0 supported OVF 0.9.

You can read about release 1.0 in the VMware Studio 1.0 Release Notes and other VMware Studio documentation.

The following features were added since VMware Studio 2.0 Beta:

• Eclipse usability improvements.
• Appliance updates from CDROM.
• Web console footer customization in the appliance VM.
• EULA first-boot display control in the appliance VM.
• Host name editing in the Web console of the appliance VM.
• Security fix for VMware Studio when uploading management services. See CVE-2009-2968.

VMware Studio 2.0 Beta build profiles are not fully compatible with the 2.0 GA software. VMware recommends that you use the Web console to re-create the beta build profiles from scratch based on the VMware Studio 2.0 GA template profiles.