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website in which users can upload, share and view videos. It was the first
site to support
(started in October 2007). Vimeo was founded in November 2004 by
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Vimeo was founded in November 2004 by
and . The name Vimeo was created by Lodwick, as a play on the words video and me. Vimeo is also an
of the word movie.
purchased Vimeo in August 2006, as part of its acquisition of Connected Ventures. In January 2009, Dae Mellencamp joined IAC as general manager of Vimeo. She served as CEO until March 19, 2012, when Kerry Trainor joined Vimeo as CEO.
As of December 2013, Vimeo attracts more than 100 million unique visitors per month and more than 22 million registered users. Fifteen percent of Vimeo’s traffic comes from . As of February 2013, Vimeo accounted for 0.11% of all Internet bandwidth, following fellow video sharing sites
and . The community of Vimeo includes
filmmakers and their fans. The Vimeo community has adopted the name "Vimeans", meaning a member of the Vimeo community, usually one who is active and engaged with fellow users on a regular basis. The
posts high-definition versions of its broadcasts to Vimeo. Vimeo has helped to offload traffic from 's servers after new pranks are announced, and continues to host most of their videos. Vimeo was also the original location of 's "everyday" video, a popular .
On July 21, 2008, Vimeo announced that it would no longer allow gaming videos. Vimeo cited a few reasons, including that the unusually long duration of gaming videos was holding back t existing gaming videos were deleted on September 1, 2008. The ban was lifted in October 2014. Until then, all new uploads were subject to the rule, but
videos with a story of their own were still permitted.
On December 2, 2015, Vimeo released an update which will see 4K streaming technology rolling out within the first quarter of 2016.
The Vimeo app, available for IOS and Android allows for video playback and limited user account management.
On October 9, 2007, Vimeo announced support for
playback in
(720p), becoming the first
site to support consumer HD. Uploaded HD videos were automatically converted into 720/30p
video. Since August 2010, all videos are encoded into
support. All videos uploaded before were re-encoded. Non-Plus users can upload up to 500 MB of videos per week, and up to one HD video per week (additional HD videos uploaded within the same week are encoded to SD).
Non-HD videos re-encode at a maximum of 30 frame/s but suffer in general video image quality, which is inline with the low
for videos in the 640×360 size. Usually the video content is re-encoded to
below 0.5 Mbit/s. This is not enough to reproduce the fine details that can be captured from, e.g., a consumer video camera or a smartphone.
Vimeo began its service with only free accounts, limited to 20 MB of disk space weekly. This limit was raised to 30 MB in 2006, then to 250 MB in January 2007 and to the current level of 500 MB in October 2007.
In July 2006, Vimeo Plus launched for $44.95/year. It featured 250 MB of disk space weekly. The service was revamped on October 16, 2008 with a higher $60 annual fee and a 2 GB weekly allowance, which was raised to the current level of 5 GB on January 4, 2011. The latter allowance allows roughly 2.5 hours of 720p video. As of 22 July 2010, the site offers unlimited HD embeds.
On August 1, 2011, Vimeo introduced the PRO account type for business and commercial use, which allows 50GB of storage, 250k plays, advanced analytics, third-party video player support and more.
PRO Unlimited
Weekly disk space
Annual disk space
Collaboration
Commercial used allowed
Everyone except "small scale independent production companies, non-profits, and artists who want to use the Vimeo Service to showcase or promote their own creative works" must become Vimeo PRO subscribers in order to upload commercial videos or use Vimeo for their business's video hosting needs.
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Vimeo's first annual Vimeo Awards took place October 8 and 9, 2010 in , dedicated towards showcasing and awarding creative video content hosted on the site. Festival judges for the nine competitive categories included , , , , and . The competition received over 6500 entries. Winners were chosen for each category, with the
finalist "Last Minutes with Oden" taking home the $25,000 grand prize. 's short narrative "Apricot" won the Community Choice Award. The two-day festival included video screenings and workshops from the likes of , , and , and an award show hosted by . A
displayed on the
concluded the festival. The 2012 Vimeo Festival+Awards commenced on 8 June and included speakers like , ,
Starting May 4, 2012, the site was
by some ISPs under orders from the , without any stated reasons. Shortly, thereafter, the ban was lifted. It was later revealed that
of the films
were the cause of a week ban of the site in India, LH Harish Ram of Copyright Labs, Chennai, representing the makers of the two films sent notices to ISPs across the country asking them to block offending . When the ISPs blocked popular sites like Vimeo, Ram wrote on his
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Lots of stuff in this announcement, so read on!
Fusion 8.5 Now Available!
Start your upgrade engines, Fusion 8.5 is here!
We’re very proud of
for achieving this milestone release, which is available as a free update for Fusion 8 customers!
New features include:
Support for Windows 10 Anniversary Guests
Support for macOS Sierra Host and Guest
Ready for Windows Server 2016
Tabbed View Support
Siri Support
Free for 8.0 Customers!
Grab the bits here:
or use the built-in Software Update feature.
We chose to make this a free release for current customers for a few reasons, but largely: “ . Theres a lot going on at VMware this year giving us an opportunity to pause and focus, () so we extended that opportunity to our users with a free upgrade that supports the latest from Apple and Microsoft, while still managing to squeeze in support for a couple of interesting features largely with the help of Apple: Tabs and Siri.
Upgrade Pricing
We also want everyone on the current version, so we’ve extended our upgrade price eligibility going back as far as Fusion 4.0… So, if you’re on Fusion 4, 5 or 6 you can qualify for a huge discount on the price of Fusion. (Oh, and we’re also giving you an
Fusion 8 upgrades for 2 days only, and
upgrades!! We must be crazy… Or we love our users… you decide!)
Virtual Reality Contest
Oh, and while we’re here, did you hear about our Virtual Reality giveaway? All you have to do is tell us in 30 seconds to a minute ‘Why you love Fusion or Workstation’ and an interesting tale that is unique to you. All the details are available here:
VMworld 2016: We Love Fusion and Workstation!
We did a session at VMworld
and spoke with some of our fans afterward, here what they have to say about Fusion and Workstation!
Release Notes
Bug fixes in this release include:
MS Office applications in Windows virtual machine would sometimes not open the attachment in the mail application on Mac. This issue is resolved.
After you import a Parallels 11 virtual machine into VMware Fusion, attempting to power on the virtual machine would fail with the error “Inaccessible Boot Device.”. This issue is resolved.
When the Full Screen Minibar was hidden at the edge of the screen, hovering the cursor over it would not make it appear. This issue is resolved.
Fusion could crash when you attempt to create a remote virtual machine on vCenter Server 5.5. This issue is resolved.
On the Ubuntu 15.10 and later versions guest OS, when you replace open-vm-tools with the VMware Tools version bundled with VMware Fusion, VMware Tools may not work as expected. After you reboot the system, an Ubuntu crash report might appear and one of the services in VMware Tools might stop working. This issue is resolved.
Attempts to drag and drop files between the host and a Mac OS virtual machine occasionally fail. This issue is resolved.
We will be issuing point releases to address any issues that may come up after macOS Sierra reaches General Availability later this month.
Hope you enjoy!
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We’ve been holding in the surprise for some time now but on the keynote stage today at VMworld, , EVP of our End user Computing business unit where Fusion and Workstation are situated, pulled the covers back and revealed the details about our big annual release.
This year we are delivering Fusion 8.5 and Fusion 8.5 Pro, and the big surprise is this: It’s a free upgrade for all current-version customers.
So, if you’re on Fusion 8.1.1, you’re going to be able to upgrade to the latest Fusion with full support for macOS Sierra and Windows 10 Anniversary edition, for free. We’ll also be adding Windows Server 2016 support when it comes available.
The release includes support for some interesting macOS Sierra features, including
This is an exciting release for us because it marks the first time that we have provided a yearly update for no additional cost to current-version customers. We’ve been holding the surprise in for some time, so we’re very excited to finally share this with the world.
We’ve also changed how users can upgrade to the latest release. Users are eligible for upgrade pricing going back to Fusion 4. So, if you have an old Fusion license and haven’t upgraded in a few years, there’s never been a better time.
Tabs! With macOS Sierra, you can now bring all those VM’s into a single window
Hey Siri, Open Microsoft Edge
This also marks the release of
editions, which you can read more about . We expect all 4 products (Fusion, Fusion Pro, Workstation Pro and Workstation Player) to release mid-September.
So if you’re still on Fusion 7 or older, you can
and know that we’ve got your back by making sure you’ll be able to run the latest and greatest from Microsoft and Apple!
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Yes, you read that right. Twenty virtual reality headsets. Wow.
Of course, writing to me and asking for one won’ you have to work a little harder than that.
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Hah, tab… see what I did there?
Here’s a sneak peek at something we’re very excited about…
One of the new features of macOS Sierra people are talking about has been native tabs for apps, and let me tell you I’m pretty excited about it. Seriously, the folks in our office are probably getting tired of me geeking-out over this by now…
Our users have been asking us for this feature for a while, and we had heard wind that Apple was going to open this up so we didn’t have to figure out a custom implementation. Good things come to those who wait =)
This feature is something I think “other Mac-based virtualization tools” will have a hard time doing…
Part of our design philosophy is to consistently use native UI elements wherever possible. This ethos applies not only to Fusion, but also to Workstation and Player where we have native UI for Linux built on GTK, for example.
In the case of OS X / macOS, we have always had a better time when we implement things that are standard UI elements within the Apple ecosystem. This year our design philosophy really pays off with our ability to natively support multiple running VM’s in a tabbed interface on macOS Sierra.
So, by upgrading to Fusion 8 and macOS Sierra, users will just get this feature by default. Yes, I said Fusion 8 ?
Enabling it is pretty simple, even if it is a little different than how you’re used to opening tabs in Safari or Finder.
With Fusion you need to have 2 or more VMs open (the Library Window does not count).
With the VM window active, go to the Window menu and click ‘Merge All Windows’.
There’s no fancy animation yet, and I expect Apple will probably add that later on.
So for folks using more than 1 VM, this is a pretty exciting feature!
We have more surprises in store for this year’s release, and with VMworld looming we’re getting very excited, and can’t wait to share the news! Stay tuned!
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One of our signs at our Palo Alto campus
The Fusion and Workstation teams are having a very busy year. Since we shipped Fusion 8 and Workstation 12 almost a year ago, we’ve been busy adding new skills to the development teams so that we can take the products in a new and compelling direction. Added to that, the team has released several updates that you really should be loading on to your systems – they make the products better in a bunch of ways that are described ,
Given that some of the new features we’re working on are aimed at developers, we recently sponsored a
party at WWDC so that people could meet the me and the rest of the management team. I was impressed by how passionate and supportive the party-goers were, and we certainly learned a lot. Our backlog of ideas almost doubled!
Early shot of the rooftop Patio Party with Macworld and friends during WWDC 2016, VMware’s Andy Morris can be seen on the very right in the middle of some intense conversation with our eStore team director, Michael B.
More sober and back in the office, it occurred to us that more people might like to meet the team too. The management team is boring, that’s just the five of us P the real teams that do the hard work of building, delivering and supporting the products are a diverse group of people spread all over the world.
Our Palo Alto braintrust. Without these geniuses, we wouldn’t be having this conversation! Ooh, and check out the turtles in our pond!
The core compute, storage and network guys work on all of VMware’s hypervisors and are known as Layer 1. These guys build the hypervisor as well as our Virtual Devices (all the “hardware” that Windows/guests see), the Graphics stack, the Networking stack, VMware Tools, VMRC (the ‘console’ view), USB devices, and the list goes on… In the photo is about half of the group. Every one of the people in this photo is a certifiable genius, and without these guys, a whole industry would not exist.
Our Hosted UI and Quality teams
Once they’ve done their voodoo, as they do, they pass the base code to these guys, our Hosted-UI (Product) and QE (Quality) teams. These folks have the incredibly difficult task of turning what is basically just cool tech, in to the products you love. And they do it exceedingly well. Every time we do a customer survey, Workstation and Fusion score the highest of all our products for quality and satisfaction. Our Hosted-UI team members, past and present, put in a lot of hours making Fusion and Workstation the amazing products they are today, and for that we can’t begin to express our gratitude.
By the same extension, we couldn’t be more excited about what we have in store for the future!
The Support team!
Of course, even with awesome quality control, sometimes you just need help solving a problem, and that’s where these guys come in. This is about half of our 24 hour, 7 days a week, Fusion and Workstation support staff. These guys are the ones we listen to the most. Building new products is fun, but we’re very aware that you rely on them to . These guys are our canaries, our triage, our compass. We couldn’t do it without them.
This combined team is working tirelessly to support you in your business. They’ve got a great surprise lined up for Q3, something very interesting for Q4, and something very big for H1. It’s not easy delivering a product that is downloaded almost 5 million times a year, but these people are the very best at what they do, and we’re proud to have them with us.
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I love our dev teams.
These folks work tirelessly to make sure that the crazy complexity that is Fusion and Workstation are able to support both the latest and greatest as well as the ancient and obsolete.
In this particular case, Apple had released a Developer Preview of their latest iteration of their Mac operating system previously called OS X. The new macOS Sierra has plenty of features to delight, but installing it in a virtual machine with VMware Fusion to test it out was met with
That workaround was a bit of an exercise, but our team has a more graceful fix ready to go now.
It’s a pretty small patch, only a couple of lines changed for one of our supporting scripts, but it makes the entire process as easy as ‘drag .app onto the New VM wizard, click next, wait for the magic to delight you’.
We need to replace a single file that’s located in your VMware Fusion app bundle.
To do this, go to your /Applications folder and right-click / ctrl-click the VMware Fusion.app
Select ‘Show Package Contents’
Navigate into Contents & Library
There’s a file in there called ‘Create Mavericks Installer.tool’. We must replace this with the patched one.
You can download the patched file from our newly-created “officially unofficial”
located here:
I plan on using this Github space to host random patch files and other interesting stuff, so feel free to fork and submit a pull request if you think there’s something we could do better in this script or anything else we post up there in the future.
It’s not exactly ‘Open Source VMware Fusion’, but it’s a step in the right direction I think ?
So go ahead, download the .tool file, replace the existing one with the patched one and get your macOS on!
Github users you know what to do, for folks that may be new to Github just click the green ‘clone or download’ button and choose ‘download .zip’.
Fusion doesn’t even need to be powered off.
Once you replace the file you should be able to click ‘File & New’ in Fusion, and simply drop the ‘Install 10.12 Developer Preview.app’ directly onto the New VM wizard.
**Update**
Forgot about permissions… You’ll have to adjust permissions at the command line with the following 2 commands:
sudo chmod 755 /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/Create\ Mavericks\ Installer.tool
sudo xattr -rc /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/Create\ Mavericks\ Installer.tool
If you have the windows open in Finder you can just type ‘sudo chmod 755’ and then drag and drop the Create Mavericks Installer.tool onto the Terminal window. Or be lazy and just paste what I wrote above which will work on any system ?
Simple as that!
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Hot off the heels of WWDC, Apple has made available the next major update to it’s flagship operating system for Mac. With a new name, macOS, Apple seems to be getting away from the OS X moniker and aligning with the rest of the OS’s that it has in it’s bag: tvOS, iOS, watchOS, and now macOS.
Users have been excited to run this in a VM to test, but it doesn’t “just work” in Fusion yet unfortunately. The reason is that Developer Preview builds have debugging code included which changes the memory layout of the installer. We specifically require a certain block layout of the .app to create the bootable install image, but because the layout is different due to debugging code, it fails with an ‘Internal Error’.
There are 2 ways to get around this:
Install 10.11 and upgrade it to 10.12
Manually create the bootable install image and attach it to an empty 10.11 VM.
The first one is pretty easy, and you can make an OS X 10.11 VM using the recovery partition with just a couple of clicks from File & New.
Once it’s up and you’ve installed VMware Tools, you can drag the ‘Install 10.12 Developer Preview.app’ onto the desktop of your 10.11 VM, double-click it and begin the install.
For folks that don’t have the time or who want to walk through a fresh installation there is a multi-step method that I’ve written about here that will show you the way and explain what’s happening along the trip.
For folks who want to run Sierra on the Mac itself and use Fusion, there is a bit of a bug that we’re working on, but there’s an easy workaround.
Currently if you try to run a VM it will fail/crash with an ‘Internal Error’.
The simple work around for now is to disable 3D graphics acceleration (per-VM setting).
It’s possible that this ‘goes away’ when Apple moves to the public beta branch (it has different debugging code enabled than the developer previews), but we’ll be keeping a close eye on things as they develop and share what we learn.
Overall, I’ve found that macOS Sierra as a Host and as a Guest work pretty well. Siri tends to work better on the Host in my experience, so we’ll be examining how to make it a smooth experience in a VM as well. For now, my advice is to speak slowly to her when she’s ‘trapped’ in a VM ?
(talking about AI with ‘he’ and ‘she’ is weird… welcome to the future!)
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Hi Everyone,
Over the weekend we rolled out an update to Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Pro that brings our version to 8.1.1.
The important fix has resolved a NAT port forwarding and DNS lookup issues that some users have been experiencing, particularly those who work with
plugin for VMware.
We’ve also addressed USB issues, Fusion crashes related to graphics, and we’ve plugged up a memory leak.
Get it via auto-update today, or grab the download directly from your or
(you can drag the trial right over the copy in your /Applications folder, all your licensing and preference information is saved elsewhere)
Details from the release notes:
The following issues were resolved in this version of VMware Fusion.
Resolved: Running graphic software with MSAA enabled causes VMware Fusion to crash
In a Windows virtual machine, running graphic software, such as a Realtime Landscape Architect program, or a graphic game, such as Civilization 4, with Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) enabled causes VMware Fusion to crash.
Resolved: Resizing the window of a running virtual machine causes host-system memory to leak
Resizing the window of a running virtual machine by dragging its corner causes the amount of system memory used to increase. You can observe the memory usage by looking at the Memory Used value on the Memory tab of the Activity Monitor.
Resolved: Enabling port forwarding breaks NAT
Enabling any port forwarding prevents the vmnat supporting application to fail to perform Network Address Translation functions
Resolved: Installing an automatic update unexpectedly suspends remote virtual machines
In VMware Fusion, after you connect to a remote virtual machine stored on either an ESXi server or a Workstation Server instance, as Fusion updates, the automatic update suspends or shuts down the running remote virtual machine, in addition to the running virtual machines that are stored on the local disk.
Resolved: Connecting specific USB devices to a virtual machine through a USB 3.0 controller causes issues
In VMware Fusion 8.1, the following situations occur when you connect the specified USB devices to a virtual machine through a USB 3.0 controller:
USB 3.0 scanner – this type of device does not function inside a virtual machine.
USB 3.0 flash drive – you cannot format this type of device inside a virtual machine.
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Simple! Build a gigantic topology with GNS3 for a chance to win one of 10 copies of Fusion 8 Pro or Workstation 12 Pro! And it’s a great contest with chances to win for both seasoned GNS3 users as well as new users to the platform.
GNS3 works best with VMware Workstation 12 Pro and VMware Fusion 8 Pro, the recommended virtualization solutions, and GNS3 users can now take 20% off the sticker price of
you may ask?
VMware Workstation Pro has been the ‘swiss army knife’ for IT admins for the past 15+ years, and while Workstation has been long regarded as the IT Admin’s tool of choice, it’s increasingly becoming the same for Network Engineers and ADmin as well.
Combining GNS3 and VMware gives that swiss army knife to Network Engineers in a very meaningful way.
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Build, Design and Test your network in a risk-free virtual environment and access the largest networking community to help. Whether you are studying for your first networking exam or building out a state-wide telecommunications network, GNS3 offers an easy way to design and build networks of any size without the need for hardware. And the best part is it’s free!
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