The new version VMware Workstation 11 has been released introducing performance improvements, latest OS support as well as Virtual Hardware 11.
An interesting feature is the integration with VMware Cloud Air that allows the interaction with VMs stored in the cloud from the VMware Workstation 11 interface.
You can manage VMs within your vSphere infrastructure connecting VMware Workstation 11 to your ESXi hosts or vCenter server.
What's new
Added support for the following OS:
- Windows 8.1 Update
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows 10 Technical Preview (Experimental support)
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- CentOS 7
- OpenSUSE 13.2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 12
Virtual Hardware version 11 - new Virtual Hardware functionality and new features while enabling VMware to run legacy operating systems in virtual machines.
- New CPU enablement, including Intel Haswell microarchitecture extension support delivering up to 45% improvement in CPU-intensive operations like multimedia, etc.
- Updated xHCI controller
- Updated NDIS drive
VMs now support 16 vCPUs, 8TB disks, 64GB of RAM and up to 2GB of video memory.
Improvements for high DPI displays - support higher resolution displays such as the new QHD+ (3200x1800) displays used in laptops and x86 tablets.
Integration with VMware vCloud Air virtual private cloud. You can now extend and scale your virtual machines in the external cloud by connecting to vCloud Air and uploading, running, and viewing virtual machines from the VMware Workstation 11 interface.
Boot virtual machines with EFI support.
Create desktop shortcuts for virtual machines.
Additional info can be found in the Release Notes.
