On the Haswell side, AVX2 and 256-bit SIMD extensions are supported alongside BMI1 and BMI2 instructions, while for the upcoming Broadwell releases, the RDSEED and ADX instructions are also supported.įor enterprise users, VMware has added vCloud Air support. Improving performance even further, VMware has built its new desktop solutions to take great advantage of current Intel processor architectures: Haswell and Broadwell. The ability to go beyond that could prove beneficial to those who run workstation-like apps inside of their guest OSes, and it stands to reason that gamers might be able to benefit, as well. Previously, VMware would scale up to a cap of 768MB. “VRAM?”, you ask? Yes – with these new VMware solutions, you’ll be able to specify exactly how much of your GPU’s memory is dedicated to a given virtual machine, with as little as 32MB, and up to 2GB.

With either of the products, you’ll be able to dedicate up to 16 CPU cores to one, as well as up to 8TB of storage, 64GB of RAM, and 2GB of VRAM. Recent versions of both Workstation and Player Pro have seen the amount of resources that can be supplied to a single VM increased, and these new versions are no exception. 32-bit virtual machines will remain supported, of course. As always, VMware has put considerable focus into improving performance in these new versions, but this time around, it’s taken things a step further: Workstation 11 and Player Pro 7 will require both a 64-bit processor and 64-bit host OS. VMware has announced that the next versions of Workstation (11) and Player Pro (7) will drop this December, and by all appearances, there’s enough meat in both of them to warrant an upgrade.

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