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* Support for up to 4 vCPU's per VM with 32GB of memory each. * Hardware virtualization support with VT-X and AMD-V(supported 64-Bit CPU required) VMware can emulate an Intel AC'97 or SoundBlaster 16.

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VMware implements a virtual USB 2.0/USB 1.1 controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device specific drivers on the host. Shared folders from the host OS appear as a mapped network drive in Windows guest OSes. This allows for easy data exchange between the host OS (the OS running VMware Workstation) and the guest operating system. These are synthetic device drivers which help improve video, mouse, I/O and networking performance while virtualized.

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* Full Paravirtualized 'VMware Tools' for Windows and Linux and partial synthetic driver support for Solaris and FreeBSD. VMware Workstation 7.1 supports many 32-Bit and 64-bit guest OSes, and provides full synthetic paravirtualized driver support for both Windows and Linux.Д«eing the mature product that VMware Workstation 7.1 is, its list of features is extremely comprehensive, and not exclusive to the list below: A similar product for Mac, VMware Fusion, also is sold by the company. VMware Workstation 7.1 supports both Linux and Windows host operating systems, and costs $189.00. I actually wrote the very first review of the product, way back in October 1999, long before the company ever expanded into server virtualization with ESX Server and vSphere 4 and became the enterprise virtualization powerhouse that it is today. VMware Workstation 7.1 is the most mature desktop/workstation virtualization product on the market - in fact, it is the first product that VMware ever introduced, back in 1999, so it has undergone 10 years of intense product development. However, it is recommended that you have at least a 4GB system and a 64-bit CPU if you are going to be virtualizing desktop operating systems with full GUIs.

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You can comfortably run each software package on a dual-core 32-bit processor with as little as 2GB of system memory. Note that the requirements of both of VMware Workstation and VirtualBox are well below that of the test system. This desire to test Windows virtualization on Linux exclusively was motivated by my recent switch to Linux as my primary operating environment, so be aware that performance of other host and guest OSes under your specific system may vary considerably. For all benchmarks, we ran at 1024x768 resolution unless the benchmark software forced it down to a lower resolution. For 64-bit VMs, we used 4 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM.

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Internet connectivity was an Optimum Ultra 100Mb cable modem link.ДЇor the purposes of our tests and for limiting the scope of the review of both VirtualBox 3.20 and VMware Workstation 7.1, I decided to concentrate on Windows XP and Windows 7 64-bit and 32-bit performance and usability under 64-bit Linux, otherwise there are far too many permutations to consider for host and guest operating systems.ДЇor 32-bit VMs, we used 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM. Our OS environment was Ubuntu LTS 10.04, 64-bit edition. Here's how they fared against each other.ДЇor the purposes of testing the two software packages, we used a dual quad-core 2.7Ghz AMD Opteron workstation with 16GB of RAM, a GeForce 9800 1GB DDR3 graphics card (using the latest production level nVidia proprietary drivers) and a 500GB SATA-2 hard disk. With the latest releases of the two major desktop virtualization apps released at around the same time, which one reigns supreme? We thoroughly tested both on our Linux system and observed them for performance and usability. Version 3.20, the first version to bear the Oracle logo, was also released this week. Oracle, having recently completed its acquisition of Sun, has continued to develop and introduce significant improvements in VirtualBox.

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Therefore, you can download the evaluation version of VMware Workstation 7.1 and after the evaluation period expires, you can continue to use your virtual machines on the 'Player'. VMware Workstation is also complemented by VMware Player, a stand-alone executable that allows you to 'Play' operating systems created with the VMware Workstation product.