Vmware heeft een nieuwe bètaversie van zijn virtualisatiesoftware Workstation 6.5 uitgebracht met buildnummer 110068. Dit pakket doet zijn werk onder Linux en Windows en is in staat om via een virtuele machine diverse besturingssystemen op de hostcomputer te laten draaien. Voor de gastcomputer kan je gebruikmaken van verschillende BSD-varianten, diverse Linux-distributies, Solaris en Windows. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina en deze handleiding in pdf-formaat. De lijst met aanpassingen richt zich op een compleet overzicht van alle veranderingen in de 6.5 bèta en ziet er als volgt uit:

New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems

This release provides experimental support for the following operating systems:

• 32-bit Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 as a guest operating system
• 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS 5.3 as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit Oracle Enterprise linux 5.3 as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit openSUSE 10.3 as host and guest operating systems

This release provides full support for the following operating systems in addition to those operating systems supported in previous releases:

• 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Home Basic and Premium, and Ultimate as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard, Datacenter, Enterprise, and Web Editions as guest operating systems with or without Hyper-V
• 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 as a host operating system
• 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows PE (preinstallation environment) and RE (recovery environment) as guest operating systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit Asianux Server 3 as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS 5.0-5.2 as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0-5.2 as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6, 4.7, and 5.0-5.2 (AS, ES, WS) as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit and 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and 10 SP1 as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 as a guest operating system
• 32-bit and 64-bit Turbolinux Server 11 as a guest operating system
• 32-bit and 64-bit Mandriva Linux 2008 as a guest operating system
• 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 7.10 and 8.04 as host and guest operating systems
• 32-bit Novell Netware 6.5 SP 6 as a guest operating system