VMWare Player 4.0 supports 8 virtual cores

harlam357

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Per the page here: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/overview.html

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Good news. Same configuration options?

 

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3.1 supports 8 virtual cores as well. It just won't run 8 virtual cores on 8 logical cores. You can't run more virtual cores than physical cores detected. I'm not sure 4.0 is any different.

 

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What, if any, advantages of v4 over v3?

 

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Audioaficionado said:

What, if any, advantages of v4 over v3?

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Not much in relation to folding, really. But 4.0 has increased size of RAM you can designate to VMs up to 64GB and Ubuntu 11.10 is officially supported.

 

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Thats weird, the last time I used VMPlayer, I could only pick 4 processors for the VM... and not 8... VBox works fine for me though, unless the version of VMPlayer I have was old. I remember 3.0.0 I could edit the vmx file to see 8 cores... but not after that. I will see what version i was trying to run in relation to the latest version.

 

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Will v4 run v3 built VMs?

 

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Yes

 

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Good. However I'm still building the latest Mint Linux Debian Edition VM and installing the latest SMP2 x64 v6.34 that is up for public download. Is there a newer or better version I could install?

 

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6.34 is the best.

 

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VM's built, now for the Linux SMP2 client

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Thanx for the VP4 heads up

 

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Well I'm impressed. VMWP 4 runs all my v3 VMs and I can now increase the memory if I want. I haven't tried to see if I can run 8 cores since I only have 4, but it seems to be an improvement over v3.

 

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I need to give it a go... just haven't gotten that far yet. Soon... hopefully.

 

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virtual box works well too... I am using it on all 12 cores, ubuntu 11.10... also, I booted the VM i made in VMPlayer on my Virtual Box just fine, an ubuntu 10.10 on my i7-920 rig seeing 8 cores.

 

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Glad it's getting more reliable b/c VB (virtual box, not visual basic) is what I'll be going with on my 4P rig. However, I'll probably stick with VMWare in Windows.