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Description: | VMware Workstation 6.5.1 Build 126130 Final
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VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and
enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC.
Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines
- no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required. VMware Workstation delivers excellent
performance and advanced features such as memory optimization and the ability to manage multi-tier
configurations. Essential features such as virtual networking, live snapshots, drag and drop and
shared folders, and PXE support make VMware Workstation the most powerful and indispensable tool for
enterprise IT developers and system administrators.
With millions of customers and dozens of major product awards over the last six years, VMware
Workstation is a proven technology that improves productivity and flexibility. An indispensable tool
for software developers and IT professionals worldwide.
VMware Workstation works by enabling multiple operating systems and their applications to run
concurrently on a single physical machine. These operating systems and applications are isolated in
secure virtual machines that co-exist on a single piece of hardware. The VMware virtualization layer
maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machine s resources, so each virtual machine has
its own CPU, memory, disks, I/O devices, etc. Virtual machines are the full equivalent of a standard
x86 machine.
VMware Workstation enables users to:
Configure and test multi-tier applications, application updates, and operating system
patches on a single PC
Easily restore or share archived test environments, reducing repetitive configuration and
set-up time
Streamline computer-based training by allowing students to always start from a clean state
and experiment with multiple operating systems, applications, and tools in secure, isolated virtual
machines
Run software demos of complex or multi-tier configurations on a single laptop
Accelerate help desk resolution of end-user problems with a library of pre-configured
virtual machines
Changes in VMware Workstation 6.5.1:
New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems
This release provides experimental support for the following operating systems:
32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Preinstallation environment all versions as a guest operating
system
32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Recovery environment as a guest operating system
32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu LTS 8.04.1 as a guest operating system
This release provides full support for the following operating systems in addition to those
operating systems supported in previous releases:
32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard, Datacenter, and Enterprise without
Hyper-V as guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit Asianux 3 as a guest operating system
32-bit and 64-bit CentOS 5.0-5.2 as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0-5.2 as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 7 Workstation, Enterprise Server, and Advanced
Server as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 5.2 Advanced Platform, Desktop, and Server as
host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and 10 SP1 and SP2 as host and guest operating
systems
32-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 as a guest operating system
32-bit and 64-bit Mandriva Linux 2008 as a guest operating system
32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu LTS 8.04 as host and guest operating systems
32-bit and 64-bit Solaris 10 Operating System for x86 Platforms, 10 5/08 Update 5 , as a guest
operating system
Major New Features
Enhanced VMware ACE authoring Use ACE Assured Computing Environment features to package
and deploy Pocket ACE and desktop virtual machines with encryption, restricted network access, and
device control. VMware ACE authoring features are now fully integrated with Workstation, and no
special ACE Edition is required. In addition to the new features listed here, be sure to read about
new ACE-specific features in the VMware ACE 2.5 release notes.
Unity mode Integrate your favorite guest applications with your host. Open the application
window, enter Unity mode, and the Workstation window is automatically minimized. The guest
application windows look just like host application windows, but with color-coded borders. You can
access the virtual machine s Start menu for Windows virtual machines or Applications menu for
Linux virtual machines by placing the mouse pointer over the host s Start or Applications menu, or
by using a key combination.
Note: Unity mode is supported only experimentally for Linux guests.
Accelerated 3-D graphics on Windows XP guests Workstation 6.5 virtual machines now work
with applications that use DirectX 9 accelerated graphics with shaders up through Shader Model 2.0
on Windows XP guests. Hosts can be running Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Linux.
More powerful record/replay of VM execution activity Easily enable this powerful debugging
tool, which records full system behavior, including all CPU and device activity. You can now insert
markers while creating or playing back a recording and quickly navigate to these markers during
replay. You can also browse a recording to replay from any spot.
Virtual machine streaming You can now download a virtual machine from a Web server and
power it on without waiting for the download to complete. Use the command-line startup command
vmware for Workstation or vmplayer for VMware Player with the URL of the virtual machine. The
download can also be paused and restarted.
Note: This feature is not available for ACE instances. Also this feature does not yet work with HTTP
redirects.
Better internationalization support and mobility with Unicode Workstation 6.5 now stores
and processes your virtual machine data with a Unicode UTF-8 encoding. This means you can now
create a virtual machine with international text in its metadata and that same virtual machine can
be used by other users of Workstation 6.5 Windows and Linux or Fusion 2.0 Mac , even if they are
using a system with a completely different host language encoding. For instance, you could create a
virtual machine on a German Windows XP host with an umlaut character in the virtual machine s name,
and then give it to a user of Workstation 6.5 on a Linux host using a simplified Chinese encoding.
The virtual machine still functions properly and the umlaut character is properly displayed in the
virtual machine s name.
Usability Enhancements
Easy Install option for Windows and Linux guest operating systems When you create a virtual
machine, you now have the option of entering a few pieces of information so that installation of the
guest operating system and VMware Tools is performed in an unattended fashion. Easy install is
supported on newer Windows operating systems and some versions of the following Linux operating
systems: Red Hat, Mandriva, and Ubuntu.
Installer bundle for Linux hosts Installing Workstation on Linux hosts just got a lot
easier. The new bundle format provides a graphical UI wizard for most Linux operating systems. With
a few mouse clicks, Workstation is installed. For users who want a custom installation, a
command-line interface provides complete control.
Virtual Network Editor for Linux hosts On Linux hosts, the new Virtual Network Editor now
provides a graphical user interface for creating and configuring virtual networks.
Expanded in-product help system When you choose Help > Help Topics, or click a Help button
in a dialog box, you have access to four times as much content as was provided in Workstation 6.0.
Integration with VMware Converter 3.0.3 This release includes the Conversion wizard
component from VMware Converter 3.0.3. You can now use File > Import to create virtual machines from
Acronis True Image files in addition to the Microsoft Virtual PC, Symantec Backup Exec System
Recovery, and StorageCraft ShadowProtect file types previously supported. You can also convert Open
Virtual Machine Format OVF appliances. For Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server
virtual machines, you now have the option of sharing the source virtual hard disk .vhd files.
New features for VMware Player VMware Player now includes the following features, which
were previously available only in Workstation:
While in full screen mode, you can now switch from one powered-on virtual machine to another.
Unity mode is available, so that you can open your favorite guest applications in windows on your
host desktop.
Both Windows and Linux hosts now support suspending the virtual machine when exiting.
Performance Improvements
Networking performance using NAT You will see significant improvements in networking
performance if a virtual machine is configured to use NAT. Performance is ten times better than in
the previous release in some cases.
Folder sharing and dragging, dropping, copying, and pasting text and files Transferring
files between virtual machines or between host and guests using these features is up to 25 percent
faster.
USB devices Several optimizations have reduced latency of I/O to USB devices by as much as
50 percent.
I/O performance A new asynchronous I/O manager boosts performance on Windows hosts under
heavy I/O loads.
VMCI performance Applications that use the Virtual Machine Communication Interface will see
a significant increase in throughput. Several optimizations have been added.
For more information about performance tuning, see the new Performance Best Practices and
Benchmarking Guidelines.
New Platform Capabilities
New virtual hardware version This new hardware version lets you use the following new
features if the guest operating system supports them: Add or remove some virtual devices while the
virtual machine is powered on hot-plug . Use LSI Logic SAS serial attached SCSI adapters in the
virtual machine. Hot-add virtual CPUs and memory to guests that support this functionality. For
virtual machines with this hardware version, 3-D graphics capabilities are enabled by default for
Windows 2000 and later guest operating systems and most Linux guests.
Experimental Support for smart cards in virtual machines You can plug a smart card reader
into a host and insert your smart card to authenticate yourself on your host or on a guest. Smart
cards can be shared between the host and guests or between guests.
Replicate the physical network connection state for mobile users If you use virtual
machines on a laptop or other mobile device, enable this new link state propagation feature if you
use bridged network connections not NAT . As you move from one wired or wireless network to
another, the IP address is automatically renewed.
Text copy and paste enhancements On Windows guests, you can copy and paste text in rich
text format, and copy up to 4MB of text. On Linux guests, the old limitations still apply. You can
copy and paste up to 64K of plain text.
Developer Tools
Experimental Replay debugging Record the execution of an application you want to debug
and then use the Integrated Virtual Debugger for Visual Studio to examine the recording repeatedly.
No debugging is performed during the recording process, so debugging activities do not affect the
normal execution of an application. This powerful tool enables you to fix bugs that cannot be
reliably reproduced.
You can also use reverse-execution debugging, which is analogous to forward execution, except the
application runs until it reaches the previous breakpoint, data breakpoint, or exception. For the
most up-to-date documentation on this feature, see Appendix C of the Workstation User s Manual.
VMCI Sockets interface Developers who want to write client-server applications for virtual
machines can now use this sockets interface for the Virtual Machine Communication Interface. VMCI
provides a faster means of communication among applications running on the host and in virtual
machines. See the VMCI Sockets Programming Guide.
Updated VIX 1.6 API The VIX API allows you to write scripts and programs to automate
virtual machine operations. The API is available in the C language. There are additional language
bindings for Perl and COM. See the VIX API 1.6 release notes and the VIX API Reference Guide.
Experimental VAssert API for inserting replay-only code to debug applications Use virtual
assertions as you would regular assertions in the applications you develop. The benefit of VAsserts
is that they appear only when you replay a recording using the application and so are overhead-free.
This API is currently available for Windows guests. See the VAssert Programming Guide.
VProbes tool for investigating guest behavior You can write VProbes scripts that inspect
and record activities in the guest, VMM, VMX, and virtual device state, without modifying that
state. For example, VProbes can track which applications are running or indicate which processes are
causing page faults. See the VProbes Programming Reference.
vmrun enhancements Many command-line options have been added to this command-line interface
for operating virtual machines. See Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines.
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