BEPS and VMWare

Barr Systems recommends that the Barr Enterprise Print Server (BEPS) run on Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, or Windows 2003. At the same time, we have customers using BEPS with VMWare. To this date, we have been able to fix BEPS/VMWare problems with standard configuration changes. However, we are not VMWare experts. Consequently, we cannot provide the OS expertise with VMWare that we do on our regularly supported operating systems. We expect you to be the VMWare expert.

While we cannot make recommendations to you about the VMWare system, we do not want to discourage you. Just note, if you plan to use BEPS in a VMWare setting, there may be a time in the future when you have a problem that we are unable to duplicate in-house. At that point, we may request you to set up a non VMWare system to test whether the problem still occurs. We will do what we can to fix any problems, but may not have the ability to assist with VMWare specific issues. In addition, we may find programming issues that we elect not to fix. We make these decisions on all operating systems, but this would be especially true for an operating system for which our software was not designed.

Sincerely,
Barr Systems Technical Support