VMware Workstation 7.0 - The program is designed for workstations, enables a computer to emulate a standalone working environment of the operating system and work with him as with the conventional system. Using this method you can install different operating systems and applications for them, go online and engage in daily tasks, but with somewhat slower speeds. The benefit of this method is the ability to test various software under various operating systems, without adversely harm the current system, installed on my main computer, as well as some test hardware solutions. It can make life easier for developers to significantly cross-platform applications and lovers to work with the new OS.
Support for transparent print without installing drivers (used technology ThinPrint).
Improvements to support 3D. OpenGL 2.1 and Shader Model 3.0 are supported in virtual machines, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. (Indirectly, this should mean support for Aero in Windows Vista - ca. From the author's news).
Support for the new model drivers Windows Display Driver Model for Windows 7 - There is only 2D acceleration and support only one monitor, the driver uses 32MB RAM. If you want to run 3d applications in Windows 7, you must configure it to use the old SVGAII driver from VMWare.
Support vSphere 4.0 and ESX support. Professionals can now run these technologies as guest operating systems to check how they are suited to your organization. ESX is currently supported only on processors that support hardware acceleration for virtualization (all Inter Core 2 and above, AMD Athlon 64 X2 AM2/Phenom and above).
Multiprocessors expanded to four-processor SMP systems, which allows you to use all the capabilities of your equipment. VMWare allows you to allocate for the guest system with four virtual single-core processors or two dual-core or one quad.
Among the new features VMware Workstation 7:
Choice as a guest OS virtual machine, VMware vSphere 4.
Support for Windows 7 as a guest and host OS
WDDM driver for the guest operating system Windows 7
OpenGL and Shader Model 3.0 for guest operating systems Windows XP and Vista
Dynamic Download VMware Tools
Multi-core and four-processor virtual machines (4 vCPU)
Ability to print from a virtual machine without installing the drivers at the expense of ThinPrint
Creating snapshots at given intervals (AutoProtect)
Protecting virtual machines 128-bit encryption
Support for the ALSA library for guest operating system Linux, which will play music from multiple virtual machines simultaneously
Improved Linux Virtual Network Editor
Major changes in this build:
Support for guest AERO Vista / Seven
It is recommended video card is not worse than the GF8600 / HD2600