Linux hosts gain support for the Vulkan Rendering Engine on PCs running integrated Intel GPUs. VM Workstation can now co-exist happily with Hyper-V mode in the latest (2004) build of Windows 10. They also come with the usual tweaks to improve performance (particularly in the fields of VM operations and file transfers), plus added support for virtual USB 3.1 devices. Naturally, the latest version of VMware Workstation plays nicely with the latest versions of OSes including Ubuntu 20,04.īoth products also gain the ability to run, build, push or pull OCI containers using VMware’s command-line vctl tool alongside the added support for Kubernetes.īoth Workstation and Fusion virtual machines are also now capable of supporting up to 32 virtual CPUs, 128GB RAM and 8GB VRAM. Support for Windows DirectX 11 apps and games has also been added to virtual machines. Mac users gain a free ‘player’ version of VMware Fusion for personal use, while both products gain support for Kubernetes clusters, allowing users to run multiple app containers at once in specialised 'nodes'.
VMware has released major updates to its virtualisation software products in the form of VM Workstation 16.0 for Windows and Linux, plus VM Fusion Player 12.0 for Mac.
