VMware Workstation 6.0

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Download: VMware Workstation 6.0 (Shareware)

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#1 Amano on 11 May 2007 - 00:51

I was waiting for this. Thank you.

(3 replies) #2 +Xtreme2damax on 11 May 2007 - 14:47

This is good and all for a new release, but When will us VMware Workstation or VMware Player/Server Users get Accelerated Direct 3d Support through the graphics card like Apple users are with VMware Fusion?

Not all of us want to just use windows all the time. I like to use different Operating Systems such as a mixture of Linux and Windows, and I'd like the ability to be able to play some or most of my games while I'm using Linux.

#2.1 Aaron44126 on 11 May 2007 - 17:38

Accelerated Direct3D support has been available since VMware Workstation 5.x. You have to manually enable it in the .vmx file.

Put this line in the .vmx file for your virtual machine:
mks.enable3d = TRUE

And add/change this line to change the amount of video memory for the VM (this one is 32 MB):
svga.vramSize = "33554432"

#2.2 beniza on 13 May 2007 - 21:10

Quote - (Aaron44126 said @ #2.1)

what would be the value for 128mb?

#2.3 _dandy_ on 14 May 2007 - 18:31

Quote - (beniza said @ #2.2)

Geez, people...

33554432 = 32*1024*1024

Think you can take it from there?

#3 Powerless on 11 May 2007 - 20:56

$99 Upgrade, not bad!

(1 reply) #4 mikejd1 on 12 May 2007 - 19:49

is it just me, or is this version EXTREMLY slow to resume VM's in Vista?

#4.1 Aaron44126 on 13 May 2007 - 19:57

Resuming VMs has always been slow for me (compared to the time it takes to suspend) so I usually use the guest OS's "Hibernate" feature instead of VMware's suspend feature if it is available.

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