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VMware Workstation 7 Now Available

PostDateIcon October 26th, 2009 | PostAuthorIcon Author: Rich Brambley


After a few short weeks as a Release Candidate (RC), Version 7 of VMware Workstation is now officially available. The gallery above contains images provided by VMware of Workstation 7 in action. The following list points out highlighted product enhancements from the draft press release I was forwarded:
  • VMware Workstation 7 is optimized for maximum performance when running on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 PCs and works seamlessly with Flip 3D and Aero Peek to show live virtual machine activity.

  • Run even more 3D applications with support for Windows Aero, DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3 and OpenGL 2.1 in Windows virtual machines.

  • VMware Workstation 7 streamlines software development and testing with new IDE integrations for the SpringSource Tools Suite and Eclipse IDE for Java & C/C++ along with Record Replay Debugging improvements that make it faster to find non-deterministic bugs.

  • Run 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems with up to four virtual CPUs and 32GB of RAM dedicated to each virtual machine.

As previously mentioned in my post about the Workstation 7 RC, another significant new feature is that ESX/ESXi 4 is now a supported guest operating system. ESX/ESXi can now be selected in the drop down list of OSes when building a new VM. This greatly simplifies using VMware Workstation as a platform for administrator training and VCP certification preparation.

For more information about VMware Workstation 7 go to www.vmware.com/workstation. VM /ETC readers can also take advantage of an additional 10% discount when ordering Workstation here.

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  • http://boche.net/blog/ Jason Boche

    Looks like someone is at the very beginning of Half Life 2 in that 3rd screen shot. I'd be very impressed if that game played well on a hypervisor. Workstation 7 is just in time for my VCP4 voucher to show up. Hopefully. Soon.

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  • Dracolith

    The Record and Replay functions are really special about VMware Workstation and extremely cool ideas, that really set the product apart.

    As VMware expands these debugging gems more.. I can't imagine many C++ programmers wanting to do debugging work without Workstation.

    I just wish VMware would get the record/replay in vSphere as well, and make it suitable for live servers (not FT).. Imagine the hypervisor having continuous recording on a recently unstable or particularly critical VM have a hook in VMware to automatically dump the past 5 minutes of server execution to a logging store, if an admin-specified condition is met [e.g. security compromise is detected, a critical service crashes, etc..], so.. detailed info is kept to assist thorough offline investigation/debugging of the issue :)

    http://www.vmware.com/support/ws7/doc/releaseno…
    As a person who dual-boots between Windows and Linux, I also really like the notion of Cross-Platform License Keys, and some of the other added features like.

    “Pause a Virtual Machine – Free your CPU resources instantaneously without powering off or suspending the virtual machine.
    Expand Virtual Disks — Increase the size of the virtual disk from within VMware Workstation. For Windows Vista and Windows 7 guests, the disk partitions can be adjusted without the use of additional software.”

  • http://vmetc.com rbrambley

    Dracolith,

    I'm not a developer so I've never taken advantage of these features of Workstation, but I know no other competing desktop virtualization host can match that integration. VMware has the best offering for development no doubt, and record and replay are incredible.

    Adding to vSphere, although interesting and useful, probably means extra storage and I/O. Maybe LabManager makes more sense since it is a perfect for a full development environment. I'm not sure, but I don't think LabManager has record and replay capability today.

  • Anonymous

    The Record and Replay functions are really special about VMware Workstation and extremely cool ideas, that really set the product apart.

    As VMware expands these debugging gems more.. I can’t imagine many C++ programmers wanting to do debugging work without Workstation.

    I just wish they’d get the record/replay in vSphere as well, and make it suitable for live servers.. Imagine the hypervisor having continuous recording on a recently unstable or particularly critical VM have a hook in VMware to automatically dump the past 5 minutes of server execution to a logging store, if an admin-specified condition is met [e.g. security compromise is detected, a critical service crashes, etc..] :)

    http://www.vmware.com/support/ws7/doc/releasenotes_ws7.html#wsfeatures
    As a person who dual-boots between Windows and Linux, I also really like the notion of Cross-Platform License Keys, and some of the other added features like.

    “Pause a Virtual Machine – Free your CPU resources instantaneously without powering off or suspending the virtual machine.
    Expand Virtual Disks — Increase the size of the virtual disk from within VMware Workstation. For Windows Vista and Windows 7 guests, the disk partitions can be adjusted without the use of additional software.”

  • Anonymous

    The Record and Replay functions are really special about VMware Workstation and extremely cool ideas, that really set the product apart.

    As VMware expands these debugging gems more.. I can’t imagine many C++ programmers wanting to do debugging work without Workstation.

    I just wish VMware would get the record/replay in vSphere as well, and make it suitable for live servers (not FT).. Imagine the hypervisor having continuous recording on a recently unstable or particularly critical VM have a hook in VMware to automatically dump the past 5 minutes of server execution to a logging store, if an admin-specified condition is met [e.g. security compromise is detected, a critical service crashes, etc..], so.. detailed info is kept to assist thorough offline investigation/debugging of the issue :)

    http://www.vmware.com/support/ws7/doc/releasenotes_ws7.html#wsfeatures
    As a person who dual-boots between Windows and Linux, I also really like the notion of Cross-Platform License Keys, and some of the other added features like.

    “Pause a Virtual Machine – Free your CPU resources instantaneously without powering off or suspending the virtual machine.
    Expand Virtual Disks — Increase the size of the virtual disk from within VMware Workstation. For Windows Vista and Windows 7 guests, the disk partitions can be adjusted without the use of additional software.”

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  • http://boche.net/blog/ Jason Boche

    Record/Replay is in vSphere in the FT technology. It's leveraged by the FT secondary.

  • http://vmetc.com rbrambley

    @jasonboche I did not know the FT secondary/shadow VM was actually created via the Record/Replay technology. But, I believe you can't “rewind” a vSphere VM's “life” like you can on Workstation – or can you?

  • Dracolith

    Perhaps… however, as I understand it, FT only “replays” if the source VM's host experiences a hardware failure, it is not useful for IT wanting to troubleshoot an app issue, doesn't really record or keep information once the execution has been logged to the protect VM. If a program running in the protected VM crashes, FT dutifully executes the crash, the app will crash on the protect VM in lock-step with the crash on the protected VM.

    vSphere FT doesn't let you clone the fault-tolerant VM to a test environment and re-play the last few moments leading up to a crash of an important app.

    What FT _does_ do is show that it ought to be possible, with a certain hardware cost (certainly, such a feature would have substantial overhead like FT).
    If FT can log to another VM, it should be possible to log to a file instead, if VMware cares to do it.

    Ideal example: production application crashes, say Apache httpd…
    Response: auto-snapshot, dump recording and a copy of the VM to 'investigation' datastore
    open the clone in VMware Workstation, re-play the moments before the crash while watching with a debugger

    It may be used to extract information about the failure that got lost in the automatic reboot of the VM, or that was never recorded in the first place (poor logging).

  • Dracolith

    Perhaps… however, as I understand it, FT only “replays” if the source VM's host experiences a hardware failure, it is not useful for IT wanting to troubleshoot an app issue, doesn't really record or keep information once the execution has been logged to the protect VM. If a program running in the protected VM crashes, FT dutifully executes the crash, the app will crash on the protect VM in lock-step with the crash on the protected VM.

    vSphere FT doesn't let you clone the fault-tolerant VM to a test environment and re-play the last few moments leading up to a crash of an important app.

    What FT _does_ do is show that it ought to be possible, with a certain hardware cost (certainly, such a feature would have substantial overhead like FT).
    If FT can log to another VM, it should be possible to log to a file instead, if VMware cares to do it.

    Ideal example: production application crashes, say Apache httpd…
    Response: auto-snapshot, dump recording and a copy of the VM to 'investigation' datastore
    open the clone in VMware Workstation, re-play the moments before the crash while watching with a debugger

    It may be used to extract information about the failure that got lost in the automatic reboot of the VM, or that was never recorded in the first place (poor logging).

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