VMware Server 2.0 Beta
VMware Server 2.0 Beta is now available. See the release notes and beta community for more information.
New features and enhancements in the VMware Server Beta 1 release:
- Web-based management interface: A new Web-based
user interface provides a simple, flexible, intuitive and productive
way for you to manage your virtual machines. - Expanded operating system support: VMware Server
now supports Windows Vista Business Edition and Ultimate Edition (guest
only), Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server Beta 3), Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 and Ubuntu 7.1, among others. - Greater scalability: Take full advantage of
high-end hardware with support for up to 8GB of RAM per virtual
machine, up to two virtual SMP (vSMP) processors and up to 64 virtual
machines per host. - 64-bit guest operating system support: Run
high-performance operating systems in virtual machines with support for
Intel EM64T VT-enabled processors and AMD64 processors with
segmentation support. - Support for VIX API 1.2: This feature provides a programming interface for automating virtual machine and guest operations.
- Support for Virtual Machine Interface (VMI): This
feature enables transparent paravirtualization, in which a single
binary version of the operating system can run either on native
hardware or in paravirtualized mode. - Support for USB 2.0 devices: Transfer data at faster data rates from USB 2.0 devices.
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