Vmware Workstation 7 Technical Preview

[hinerakatauri1979]

Our favourite website *wzor has a Vmware Workstation 7 Technical Preview for us to try out.

New Features:
- Windows 7 support (as a Host and Guest OS)
- New WDDM Graphics driver for Windows 7 guests
- OpenGL and Shader Model 3.0 for Windows XP and Vista guests
- Download VMware vSphere 4 and install ESX as a guest OS to try out the latest features.
- Dynamically Download the latest VMware Tools package only when you need it.
- Configure your VMs to use Multi-core and 4-way CPUs.
- Print from your VM without installing printer drivers. Virtual Printing courtesy of our friends at ThinPrint.
- Automatically create snapshots on scheduled intervals with AutoProtect.
- Secure your Virtual Machines with 128-bit encryption.
- ALSA Sound support on Linux hosts enables multiple VMs to play "music" concurrently.
- Instantly pause a VM to free up system resources or dedicate horsepower to other running VMs.
- The highly acclaimed Linux Virtual Network Editor user inte***ce has been implemented for Windows users.


Thanks to wzor.

 

[beg4mercy]

good post...Thanks for the info.
also , you can install your windows 7 ( RTM or RC ) onto Vmware Workstation 6.5 but image name looks like vista OS.(sure you can rename to win7 or windows se7en etc. )

 

[Kaizen]

Cool, hopefull version won't crash my network like 6.5.

 

[hinerakatauri1979]

I Haven't had the time to test it yet. Has anyone tested this yet? does it work, is it stable enough. how about the resources its using.

 

[swarfega]

Will certainly give this version a try.

 

[runetov]

come on people, if you have installed it under W7, tell us how it's working? any problems?

 

[Silver0066]

Cool, hopefull version won't crash my network like 6.5.

The new VmWare update v6.53 now works and won't crash the network.

 

[ochiru]

come on people, if you have installed it under W7, tell us how it's working? any problems?

Running 7.0.0 build-197124 on Windows 7 Ultimate RC x64 and RTM x64.

It runs great on both machines and didn't break any VM I had. Also the two previous beta worked just as well.

It's always faster to test yourself

 

[swarfega]

Is the free server application getting updated soon too?

 

[ochiru]

Is the free server application getting updated soon too?

Probably not. I haven't seen any beta invites and the development of VMware Server is quite slow anyways.

 

[swarfega]

is workstation enough to install all the previous versions of windows including win9x?

 

[swarfega]

I couldnt see it mentioned on that site.

 

[ochiru]

Workstation 5, 6.x and 7 support Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME and DOS in addition to all the relevant ones.

Don't really know about older Workstation versions...

 

[s0me0ne]

Print from your VM without installing printer drivers. Virtual Printing courtesy of our friends at ThinPrint

That sounds like the best new feature

Thanks for the news, I use VMs a lot

 

[jimbo45]

Hi all

The "official" version is available for trial on the vmware site as I've posted also in a thread.

It DOES support W95, and even W3.11 - as well as vastly improving the graphics and allowing W7 vm's to run aero.

Only drawback its limited until end of Nov - but still worth a trial.

cheers
jimbo