This is definitely becoming one of my favorite programs and the most useful I own. They just released beta 2, with a bunch of cool new features:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

The Virtual Network Editor is definitely my favorite feature, and makes this 10x better than Virtualbox in my opinion. That and OpenBSD actually works for me in VMWare workstation, and doesn’t in virtualbox, which scares me about virtualbox’s vm and what other bugs we might not be seeing. Combine VMWare workstation with ubuntu-vm-builder and you have a lot of power at your fingertips.

(Not paid by VMWare, I just know people have been waiting for those features to be released)

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