VMware provides support for the following operating systems for Workstation 6.5.2:
· Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2
· Asianux Server 3.0 Service Pack 1
· openSUSE 11.1
· Ubuntu 8.10
· Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
VMware provides experimental support to the following operating systems for Workstation:
· Fedora 11
· FreeBSD 7.1
· Mandriva Linux 2009
· Novell SLE11.0
· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8
· Sun Solaris 10 Update 6
· Ubuntu 9.04
· Many enhancements were made, including support for several new operating systems, integration of ACE authoring features, the ability to start VMs in streaming mode, an installation wizard GUI with an alternative command line mode, an "Easy Install" option for unattended installation of several Windows OSs and Linux distributions, Unity mode, accelerated 3D graphics for Windows XP guests, a graphical virtual network editor for Linux hosts, enhancement of VM record and replay, virtual hardware updates for hot-plugging, and more.