VMware can allocate up to 256MB of virtualized video RAM and has full support for Windows Direct3D, OpenGL 2.13D and DirectX9.0c with Shader Model 3 support. * Accelerated 2D graphics and comprehensive 3D graphics support for select guest OSes. * Support for up to 4 vCPU's per VM with 32GB of memory each. * Hardware virtualization support with VT-X and AMD-V(supported 64-Bit CPU required) VMware can emulate an Intel AC'97 or SoundBlaster 16. VMware implements a virtual USB 2.0/USB 1.1 controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device specific drivers on the host. Shared folders from the host OS appear as a mapped network drive in Windows guest OSes. This allows for easy data exchange between the host OS (the OS running VMware Workstation) and the guest operating system. These are synthetic device drivers which help improve video, mouse, I/O and networking performance while virtualized. * Full Paravirtualized 'VMware Tools' for Windows and Linux and partial synthetic driver support for Solaris and FreeBSD. Therefore, you can download the evaluation version of VMware Workstation 7.1 and after the evaluation period expires, you can continue to use your virtual machines on the 'Player'. VMware Workstation is also complemented by VMware Player, a stand-alone executable that allows you to 'Play' operating systems created with the VMware Workstation product. Version 7.1 of VMware Workstation was released very recently, on May 25, 2010. While the company continues to maintain VMware Server 2.0, its free hosted virtualization product, it has concentrated its desktop virtualization development efforts on VMWare Workstation, a $189.00 desktop virtualization software package. This complicates things somewhat for the desktop virtualization user seeking a free solution, as ESX 3i requires a dedicated system. VMware, a division of EMC Corporation, decided to make some strategic changes along the lines of its free virtualization solutions by offering its enterprise-level hypervisor, ESX Server, in a free version, ESXi.

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