VMware Workstation 6.5

VMware Releases Server 2.0, Workstation 6.5, ACE 2.5

September 28, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

VMware has announced the availability of its free server class virtualization product, VMware Server 2.0, a free hosted virtualization product for Microsoft Windows and Linux servers that has been around for quite some time.

Workstation 6.5, its long running desktop virtualization platform has also hit the wires, and finally ACE hit the 2.5 mark.

(VMblog gives a run-down of the new stuff in VMware Server 2.0, Workstation 6.5 and ACE 2.5)

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Release: VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta 2

June 25, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

VMWare has released Beta 2 of Workstation 6.5, expected to be released during Q3 2008.

Here are the highlights of the new release:

Virtual Machine streaming – download VM’s from a web server and power it on before it’s even finished downloading
Installer for Linux
Record/Replay Debugging functionality (proclaimed b VMWare as “experimental”; be a bit skeptical at this stage)
Unity enhancements
Clipboard enhancements
Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) improvements
enhancements to “vmrun”
more features

Read the release notes here, enroll for the beta here.

[Source: VMHero]

VMware Debuts VAssert, A New Workstation API

June 24, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

VMware just blogged about VAssert (programming guide – PDF), a new API debuting in Workstation 6.5 (beta) that uses the Record and Replay functionality they’ve been talking about for some time now. VAssert (Virtual Assertions) is a relative of your standing programming ASSERT debugging tool, but by delaying assert-checking until later when the exact machine instructions are replayed, it can be “very fast”.

VMware engineers Weiming Zeng and Min Xu demonstrate VAssert within Apache here.