In my last post about Workstation 5.5 I mentioned 3 cool new features coming:
- Full support for 64-bit host and guest OSes
- Experimental support for 2-ways Virtual SMP
- Convertless support for Microsoft VMs
Now VMware opened the new beta build 16325 to everybody and I can talk about the enhanced features and the main new ones:
- Experimental 2-ways Virtual SMP confirmed for any dual-core CPU
(in this case VMware doesn’t warn about any performance degradation, as they did for HyperThreading CPUs) - The Virtual Machine Importer is now integrated with VMware Workstation and can import also Symantec LiveState and Ghost images
- Snapshot can now be created and managed by command line interface
(this means we can start producing backup scripts easily) - Virtual hardware autodetection is now extended to floppy, sound adapter, parallel and serial port
You can read other release notes here: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html