VMware Workstation 12 Brings Better Performance, OpenGL 3.3 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VMware Workstation 12 Brings Better Performance, OpenGL 3.3 Support

VMware this morning announced Workstation 12 Pro and Workstation 12 Player with a variety of virtualization improvements for Windows and Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VMWare-Workstation-12

[Xaero_Vincent]

So this means DirectX 10 games like Just Cause 2 and Grand Theft Auto 5 can now potentially work on Linux hosts with Windows guests, right? Quite exciting.

[RealNC]

Nah, it's still gonna suck under Linux.

When I run it on Windows, the guest is nice and smooth.

When I run it on Linux, the guest is choppy and stuttery.

It simply sucks under Linux.

[uid313]

Proprietary software, mehh.
I'll just stick with VirtualBox and QEMU/KVM.

[Xaero_Vincent]

Nah, it's still gonna suck under Linux.

When I run it on Windows, the guest is nice and smooth.

When I run it on Linux, the guest is choppy and stuttery.

It simply sucks under Linux.

That hasn't been my experience with previous versions of VMWare Player on Linux hosts. It ran Windows guests just fine and with better graphics performance than VirtualBox, although I use proprietary Linux graphics drivers. I guess I'll find out if things remain this way with the latest version--I'm getting it now.

[DebianLinuxero]

VMmare don't care much about old users.

They've should continuing support 32 bit versions. If they don't release 32 bit on newer versions, at least they should support newer kernels in their 7.1.x.
Because it's imposible to build vmware kernel modules for 7.x on modern hosts with 3.16 linux kernels.

[Xaero_Vincent]

VMmare don't care much about old users.

They've should continuing support 32 bit versions. If they don't release 32 bit on newer versions, at least they should support newer kernels in their 7.1.x.
Because it's imposible to build vmware kernel modules for 7.x on modern hosts with 3.16 linux kernels.

Archlinux has a patch to make Player 7.1.x work with kernels upto the latest 4.1.x. I've used it many times and allows to compile the kernel modules with 4.x kernels.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vmware-patch/

This patch doesn't appear to be necessary with the just released VMWare Player.

[SyXbiT]

I really like VMWare, but it's just too expensive, and they charge a lot for (yearly) upgrades.
I used to use it on Mac, but you're forced to upgrade every year, since only the new version works well on the latest Mac OS X.
Sticking to KVM from now on

[torsionbar28]

Nah, it's still gonna suck under Linux.

When I run it on Windows, the guest is nice and smooth.

When I run it on Linux, the guest is choppy and stuttery.

It simply sucks under Linux.

I suspect you've got something misconfigured. I've been running VM Workstation 10, on RHEL6, and with a Windows XP guest & Steam, I can run most older games at silky smooth frame rates. No stuttering, no tearing, just smoooooth. FWIW vid card is a GTX 560 ti.

[SXX⁣]

So this means DirectX 10 games like Just Cause 2 and Grand Theft Auto 5 can now potentially work on Linux hosts with Windows guests, right? Quite exciting.

This also mean that their proprietary Gallium3D D3D1x state tracker mature enough to run real DirectX 10 applications. It's interesting because they may eventually open source it.

PS: Michael, link to "the Workstation features page." is broken.