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VMWare Workstation 6.0 RC Available

Author: Sven Rafferty
Friday, April 20, 2007

VMWare has just issued the release canidate for Workstation 6.0 for the Mac Vista. Many bug fixes have been made and now you can run Workstation without debug logging to speed up the virtual machine.

Workstation contains the following new features:

  • Support for Windows Vista – Use Windows Vista as host operating system
  • Multiple monitor display –You can configure a VM to span multiple monitors, or multiple VMs to each display on separate monitors.
  • Support for USB 2.0 devices – You can now use peripherals that require high-speed performance in your VMs, such as MP3 Players and fast storage devices
  • VM Record/Replay – Use this feature to record VM activities and be guaranteed to reproduce the exact VM state 100% of the time.
  • Integrated Virtual Debugger – Workstation integrates with Visual Studio and Eclipse so you can deploy, run, and debug programs in a VM directly from your preferred IDE
  • Automation APIs (VIX API 1.1) – You can write scripts and programs to automate VM testing.

You can find detailed information on new features, answers to frequently asked questions, links to download the product, release notes, etc. at as well how to obtain a free license key at http://www.vmware.com/wsbeta.

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4 Responses to “VMWare Workstation 6.0 RC Available”

  1. Gino Says:
    April 21st, 2007 at 5:54

    Sorry, but this is NOT for the Mac!

  2. Sven Rafferty Says:
    April 21st, 2007 at 7:09

    Yup, it’s for Vista. Our error. VMMare sent this to us without specific mention to the OS supported and we are only on VMWare’s Mac list. Sooooo, why it sent us this, who knows. But it would have been nice if had been more specific in its mailing and the beta page for the supported OS.

    Thanks Gino for pointing this out.

  3. Ex2bot Says:
    April 21st, 2007 at 19:11

    The Mac version is called Fusion, not Workstation.

    Piece

    Bot

  4. james968 Says:
    April 22nd, 2007 at 5:33

    They changed Fussion a few weeks ago, so that you can disable the Debugging code from the preferences dialog box.

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