Features And Capabilities Of Vmware Workstation 6.0
Guest OS Supported
Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, 2003, NT, XP, Vista
RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Mandrake, Mandriva, Turbo Linux
Solaris 10 x86, Novell Netware, and many others!
Para-virtualized guest OS support for up to 25% performance increase
32- and 64-bit Support
Support for AMD Athlon, Opteron and Intel EMT 64 with VT
Virtual SMP
Enable one or more CPUs per VM
Hardware Support
8GB RAM per VM / unlimited RAM across VMs
IDE or SCSI disk support with configurable size
Support for USB 2.0, DVD, CD-ROM devices
CD and floppy support
Guest Interaction
HGFS 2.0 (Shared Folders)
Cross-Platform Drag-N-Drop
VMware Tools Auto-Upgrade
Up to 10 Virtual PCI Slots
Capabilities
You can Capture entire state of virtual machine at different points in time
You can Revert to any saved snapshot
Branching is supported
Benefits
You can Easily capture complex configurations
You Spend more time testing/developing than setting up configurations to reproduce defects
Whants new in Vmware Workstation 6.0
Headless mode
Run virtual machines in the background without using the Workstation user interface
It has Remote Access
Optionally turn on for any VM running in Workstation
No need to modify guest by installing VNC or RDP server
VMware Converter Included
Turn a physical computer into a virtual machine in minutes
Integrated Virtual Debugger
Integrates with Visual Studio and Eclipse so you can deploy, run, and debug programs in a virtual machine directly from your preferred IDE
Support for Windows Vista
Use Windows Vista as guest and host operating system
Multiple monitor display-
You can stretch a virtual machine to span multiple monitors, or multiple virtual machines to each display on separate monitors
Support for USB 2.0 devices
You can now use peripherals that require high-speed performance in your virtual machines, such as iPods and fast storage devices
ACE authoring capabilities
You now have the ability to create and run ACEs, including Pocket ACEs for easy, secure transport of your virtual machines on a thumb drive
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He works on technologies like Networking, Virtualization, Security etc.He can be reached at http://nityasworld.com
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