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VMware Workstation 6.5.1 have been released.

VMware Workstation Version 6.5.1 | 21 NOV 2008 | Build 126130
Last Update: 21 NOV 2008

What’s New?

• Japanese localization — A localized version of Workstation is now available in Japanese for Windows hosts.
  Note: Technical Support services for Workstation are currently delivered in English. Japanese-speaking support engineers are available in a limited capacity during the operating hours of the local support center. For more information, see VMware local language support.
• Smart card support for Linux guests — Smart cards are now experimentally supported with Linux guests.
• Unity mode on Linux guests — Although support for Unity mode on Linux guests is still experimental, repainting of application windows is much improved.
• 3-D graphics — Additional improvements have been made to improve 3-D performance on Windows XP guests.

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As what had been demo and shared during the VMworld 2008, most of you guys may aware that the ESX 4.0 or ESX 4i is on the way out and currently may still in development and beta test by VMware. Some of the features been demo example as the fault tolerance  which is an interesting features that most of us will be willing to have a look on it. Beside that, VMware is also ready to allow more than 4 vcpu per VM from this version. Although the HyperV and Xen had supported up to 32 virtual cpu per VM. With ESX4, this will bring VMware back on track with the necessary powerful environment to be run in virtualization world. If we need to run a VM with more than 8 Vcpu, I will think the best option of it will be running on physical servers instead of VM. Which could be consider not a good candidates to be virtualized.
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