osx support for vmware workstation on mac hardware

This new capability allows the author of an encrypted virtual machine to require users to enter an additional password to change their virtual machine settings. Workstation 9 includes enhancements to the virtual graphics device to improve the overall speed and accuracy of rendering OpenGL graphics in Linux virtual machines.

The version of X.Org that includes the driver is being shipped in Ubuntu 12.04 among other Linux new distributions. This allows VMware's customers to use the new graphics capabilities in current Linux distributions without needing to install VMware Tools.

VMware has developed an OpenGL graphics driver and up-streamed it to X.Org. The enhancements include a display-only graphics driver that can render 3D in Windows 8 without hardware acceleration, improvements to make graphics applications like AutoCAD and SolidWorks render more quickly and accurately, an improved Windows XP graphics driver and fundamental changes to improve performance and enable more advanced graphics capabilities in the future. VMware has made substantial changes to Workstation 9 graphics virtualization infrastructure. Workstation 9 also includes multi-touch support for driving the Windows 8 Metro interface running in Workstation on a Windows 8 tablet. Toggling between Metro and the Windows Desktop can be done by simply pressing the Windows key on the keyboard and Unity intelligently handles the Metro interface. Workstation 9 has been enhanced to support the Windows 8 user interface (formerly known as Metro). Easy Install has been enhanced to recognize Windows 8. Workstation 9 has been designed to run on Windows 8 and run Windows 8 virtual machines.

Osx support for vmware workstation on mac hardware