VMware Workstation 5.5 (zz)

Today, VMWare officially released the 5.5 official version of its well-known Virtual Machine Software vmware workstation. The new version of VMware Workstation provides enhanced support for 64-bit processors and operating systems, as well as experimental support for dual-socket virtual symmetric processing (SMP), as well as enhanced Virtual Machine import and command line interfaces.

VMware Workstation is a virtual PC software that can run two or more windows, DOS, and Linux operating systems simultaneously on one machine. VMware Workstation uses a completely different concept than a multi-boot system. The former can run only one system at a time, and the machine needs to be restarted during system switching.

As early as September this year, the new version of 5.5 beta vmware workstation also supported AMD's athlon 64 processor and Intel's emt64 processor, and supported Windows and Linux operating platforms (32-bit and 64-bit ). Solaris x86 processors and FreeBSD operating systems are also supported, but they are experimental.

VMware Workstation 5.5 can convert an image created by Symantec livestate recovery into a virtual machine or directly open it. It can also seamlessly run Microsoft VPC and virtual server. Previous versions can only convert the format. This time, it is directly supported. In addition, the enhanced command line interface makes repetitive operations easier.

Wmware also provides a free tool, wmware player, which can be viewed as a lite version or demo of VMware Workstation since January October.

The price of VMware Workstation 5.5 downloaded from vmstore is $189, and the price of boxed retail version is $199.

Click to download the trial version of VMware Workstation 5.5.

Click to go to VMWare Player (β2) download