Every once in a while my system would crash on me and I have not had a repeat since I have upgraded. I don't see too much of a performance boost. After the "upgrade" I was promptly informed that my VMware Tools were out of date and I upgraded them. Installation was pretty straight forward.
I would still like to see support for OpenBSD and the i386 version of Solaris, or better yet a SPARC emulator.īe sure to read all of the release notes before you Install anything. VMware is getting better at supplying its Tools for various host operating systems. Be sure to read the workaround.įor those of you who test NetWare 6, good news, there are now VMware tools for that NOS. So that's why it kept on crashing after installing that version of the Windows service pack. Support for Windows 2000 SP3 is a nice touch. I wouldn't know because I download the kernel source and compile my own. VMware now installs those Kernel modules after you use up2date to upgrade to a new RedHat "canned" kernel.
There is support for the RedHat Kernel update too. Oh I wish I had one of those! Other than that I have not seen much more performance. I have also noticed that my guest Windows XP OS doesn't claim to have a 6Ghz processor any more. My system used to crash every once in a while on my laptop and it never crashed on my AMD system at home. OK they claim better Pentium 4 performance. The same goes for the administrative lockout feature. They are basically all the same except with some enhancements. Just read any of the previous articles concerning the 3.X versions. I won't go into too much detail on this version of the software. You need enough disk space to run each guest operating system.
512MB is you want to run Windows 2000/XP guests. 128MB RAM is the minimum and 256MB is recommended. You need enough memory to run both the host and guest OS. If you want to run a Windows 2000/XP guest I would recommend at least a 800Mhz Processor. Standard PC with a minimum 400Mhz processor. Please check their website for your specific distribution. These requirements are the basic ones when using the compressed archive version of the software (IE you need to install using their Perl install script). Whether you use it for network administration, help desk, development, or just for fun you will definitely get your moneys worth! System Requirements I use the hell out of this software and it has rarely let me down. As always each new VMware Workstation release offers new features and fixes bugs that plagued its predecessor. I have been a VMware Workstation user for quite a while now.