How much longer will the Certified Virtual Appliance Program certify virtual appliances built on GOSes not supported by VMware?
On July 1, 2008 the Certified Virtual Appliance Program (CVAP) required all virtual appliances to be built with a supported GOS. The hardware appliance to virtual appliance conversion market typically relies on a heavily audited, heavily tuned, in-house supported Guest OS, with as few changes made as possible to add virtual appliance capabilities. The capital costs and labor costs of this approach mean that the net entry cost into the “virtual” space is extremely low (and therefore very appealing!) to the hardware appliance vendor. Note that (additional/future) certification tiers may only be available to virtual appliances which use a supported Guest OS. With the launch of the VMware Ready Virtual Appliance Program in April 2009 (this program replaced CVAP) VMware will require that all virtual appliances that attain VMware Ready status be built on a supported GOS.
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