VMware Workstation 6.5

VMware Workstation - The program allows you to run on the computer multiple operating systems. VMware Workstation emulates a standalone computer and allows you to work with him as with a conventional system, set the operating systems and applications. Usefulness of the package is the ability to test various software under various operating systems, while not harming the current OS installed on your computer. Greatly simplifies life for developers to cross-platform applications and lovers to work with new operating systems. Allows you to organize the network between virtual machines, as well as interact with external devices. 


With VMware Workstation is possible: 
• On one physical computer to conduct processes of development, testing, debugging and running multi-tier applications brouzernyh; 
• Effectively use function of transportability of virtual machines for secure distribution of software debugging environment and configured operational; 
• Install new or update available operational systems without performance of operations with hard disk partitions and rebooting the computer; 
• Simultaneously to maintain new operational systems and legacy applications on a single computer. 
VMware Workstation in the corporate environment allows: 
• Reduce time spent on the cycles of software development; 
• Improve the efficient use of computing power; 
• Reduce time spent on the removal of technical problems; 
• Improve IT professionals; 
• Improve the quality of the developed software. 

The main innovations: 
* Official support for many new 32 and 64 bit OS (even if 32-bit OS, but the processor must support 64-bit); 
* A new mode of Unity, which allows you to run applications in the guest OS so that it looks like a native application host, with its icon in the taskbar; 
* Virtual machine streaming - the ability to download the OS from the network, without waiting for downloading the entire image; 
* Support for the acceleration output for DirectX 9 graphics in a guest Windows XP, including support shaders version. Now you can play many computer games. The technology works even if VMWare runs on Linux (but in this case for NVIDIA cards need to install proprietary drivers); 
* Advanced Mode to create packages ACE. 
New features of integration: 
* Integrated VMware Converter 3.0.3, which lets you import images Acronis True Image, in addition to previously supported Microsoft Virtual PC, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery, and StorageCraft ShadowProtect; 
* New features of the player virtual machine: in output mode to full screen you can now switch between virtual machines, access mode Unity (see above), supported by stiffening guest (suspend), as a master of Windows, and under Linux; 
* Unified installation under Linux, now the installation package is the same for all distributions (tn. bundle; RPM is simply a wrapper for it); 
* Improved process of creating a virtual machine - now you will be offered once to select the CD image to install and enter some information for the Installer Windows (name, organization and serial number), which will then be automatically inserted during installation; 
* On Linux, finally a virtual network editor; 
* Officially supported by the Linux kernel version 2.6.26 (inclusive). 

Improvements in productivity: 
* Significantly improved performance of the virtual network adapter, NAT; 
* Increased to 25% of the speed of the "Shared Folders"; 
* Increased performance and speed of I / O disk subsystem guest Windows; 
* Significantly improved speed of interaction protocol VMCI. 

The new platform features: 
* Increased the version number of the hardware, because of the appearance of the following features: hot adding and removing storage devices, processors and memory. 3D acceleration in Windows XP and Windows 2000 through DirectX 9. 
* Support for smart cards at a party; 
* The ability to duplicate the state of the physical network into a virtual, to improve the performance of guest operating systems on laptops; 
* Clipboard between Windows environments increased to 4MB, supports the transfer format (RTF).

System Requirements:

• 400 MHz or faster CPU minimum (500 MHz recommended)
• 128 MB minimum (256 MB recommended)
• 150MB (Windows) free disk space required for basic installation. You can delete the installer afterwards to reclaim 56 - 60MB.
• Any Ethernet controller supported by the host operating system
• Non-Ethernet networks supported using built-in network address translation (NAT) or using a combination of host-only networking plus routing software on the host operating system