Back in February VMware released their whitepaper on “Microsoft Virtualization Licensing and Distribution Terrms“.  It caused quite a bit of stir out on the intarweb and I was even inspired to write my own commentary — along with thousands of others  :)

Anyway, roughly 3 months later VMware has released an update, included recent licensing changes in their ‘post’, “Microsoft Virtualization Licensing and Distribution Terms - Addendum“, and a snippet (Thanks to Virtualization.info) is below:

  • Running Microsoft Virtual Machines on Third-Party Virtualization Software
  • Activation of Microsoft Virtual Machines on Third-Party Virtualization Software
  • Server Virtual Machine Mobility
  • Virtualization for Hosted Desktops
  • Mobility for Virtualized Desktops
  • Availability of Virtualized Windows for Desktops from OEMs

I have to agree with Alessandro, “this addendum is a welcome action from VMware even if it should be included at bottom of original paper and not as a separate download“