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The Cyber Monday offers for VMware Fusion 7, VMware Fusion 7 Pro, VMware Workstation 11 and VMware Player 7 Pro ends Decemat 11:59pm Pacific Time.Īt the moment, I'm having a strange issue with upgrading from the beta, described here, but it's safe to assume I'll get past those soon (yep, been fixed), and be able to report my experience with the enhanced speeds and features VMware touts in the announcement: Yes, that was Cyber Monday, but their 30% off promotion has this happy small print: On Monday, December 01, 2014, VMware released VMware Workstation 11, with VMware Player 7 Pro. Why exactly? This way, I can run a VM of my Windows 7 Professional full-screen, across all three monitors, and have easy access to snapshots and other Workstation-only, developer-focused features, all running very quickly off my 1TB Samsung SSD. So when it comes to my "daily driver" OS of choice, my Windows 8.1 16GB RAM ThinkPad W520 laptop runs VMware Workstation. Yes, the dirty little secret is that Windows 7 Pro has no multi-monitor support via RDP sessions, so I cannot run it on my distant ESXi host, and expect to be able to use my triple monitors. Yes, I run the very powerful and efficient ESXi 5.5 in my home lab.

Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Dec 28 2014) in
