Try VMwareWorkstation6.5Beta2

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Two months ago, VMware Workstation 6.5 made its first public Beta. At that time, the first Beta version was not very stable, especially the Unity feature, which was not available in my tests. Let alone 3D features.

VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta2 was released recently. I downloaded and tried it as usual. This version is already very stable!

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For more information about the new features of VMware Workstation 6.5, read this article: VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta public test.

If you are also interested in testing the new Beta 2, you can accessWorkstation 6.5 Beta Program, Select Join the Beta Program to download the test.

Install Beta2 in the same way as the previous version. Extract the package and run the vmware-install.pl as root.

My testing environment is Ubuntu 8.04. I started Windows XP with VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta2, installed the latest VMware Tools (Virtual Machine driver), and restarted the virtual machine. Next, you can use the Unity button.

Press the button to enter the Unity mode. The interface is changed to the following.

If the idle Workstation is too large, you can also use VMware Player to start the Unity mode, which is much lighter!

After entering Unity mode, the most obvious change is that there is a menu in the upper left corner. Generally, the command is named "Start Menu" by your virtual machine ". Through this, you do not need to open some windows in advance before entering the Unity mode.

With this simple start menu, you can call the application you want to enable at any time.

Compared with the method that VirtualBox completely exposes the "Start Menu", VMware cannot do this well, because it means that VMware will not be able to see the "Notification area.

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