VMware Workstation 8.0.2 Build 591240

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Date updated

January 25, 2012

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Price

$189

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Description of VMware Workstation 8.0.2 Build 591240

Run multiple operating systems on one computer

VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines - no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required.

VMware Workstation delivers excellent performance and advanced features such as memory optimization and the ability to manage multi-tier configurations. Essential features such as virtual networking, live snapshots, drag and drop and shared folders, and PXE support make VMware Workstation the most powerful and indispensable tool for enterprise IT developers and system administrators.

With millions of customers and dozens of major product awards over the last six years, VMware Workstation is a proven technology that improves productivity and flexibility. An indispensable tool for software developers and IT professionals worldwide.

VMware Workstation works by enabling multiple operating systems and their applications to run concurrently on a single physical machine. These operating systems and applications are isolated in secure virtual machines that co-exist on a single piece of hardware. The VMware virtualization layer maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machine's resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, I/O devices, etc. Virtual machines are the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine.

Key features

• Configure and test multi-tier applications, application updates, and operating system patches on a single PC
• Easily restore or share archived test environments, reducing repetitive configuration and set-up time
• Streamline computer-based training by allowing students to always start from a "clean" state and experiment with multiple operating systems, applications, and tools in secure, isolated virtual machines
• Run software demos of complex or multi-tier configurations on a single laptop
• Accelerate help desk resolution of end-user problems with a library of pre-configured virtual machines

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What is new in version 8.0.2 Build 591240

The following issues are resolved in this release of VMware Workstation:
• The ACLs on the PID files needed improvement. VMware thanks Inode0 for bringing this to our attention.
• Releasing input from the guest to the host, for example, moving the cursor from the virtual machine window to the host screen, failed with an unrecoverable error.
• Copying and pasting from a guest to an Ubuntu 11.10 host failed.
• Shared folders did not work in Fedora 16 and OpenSuse 12.1 guests.
• In Ubuntu 11.10 hosts, key repeat was disabled after ungrabbing or quitting VMware Workstation.
• On a Windows host, a virtual machine configured to use a physical disk or partition failed to power on if the host had a volume backed by more than one physical disk, for example, a RAID system.
• On a machine with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1, vix-perl installation failed with dynamic link errors.