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VMware Updates Its DDX To Version 13.0.0

phoronix.com: Aside from the load of miscellaneous X.Org package updates, VMware has released updates to their important X.Org driver components for input and graphics when it comes to Linux guests on their virtualization products...

VMware Still Trying To Push VMCI, VSOCK For Linux

phoronix.com: VMware is still trying to push VMCI (the Virtual Machine Communication Interface) and VSOCK (VMCI Sockets) into the mainline Linux kernel. Fortunately, it looks like this virtualization code from the proprietary software vendor will make it into the Linux 3.9 kernel...

VMware Works On Mainlining More Linux Kernel Code

phoronix.com: VMware developers continue to work on mainlining more of their Linux kernel code to support their virtualization platform in the name of improving the "out of the box" experience for Linux VM guests. The latest work has been on pushing forward VMCI and VSOCK for the mainline Linux kernel...

VMware Fusion 5.0 Benchmarks With Ubuntu 12.04

phoronix.com: Many Phoronix readers have been asking about VMware Fusion 5.0 benchmarks, so here are some numbers for those wondering about this closed-source virtualization product for running other operating systems atop Mac OS X...

VMware Fusion Stuns VirtualBox In CPU Tests

phoronix.com: Aside from VMware virtualization smacking Oracle VirtualBox when it comes to the OpenGL support that's passed through to VM guests, VMware Fusion 4 also does a nice job at outperforming VirtualBox when it comes to computational-focused workloads.

VMware Virtualization With OpenGL Still Smacks Oracle VirtualBox

phoronix.com: Earlier this year I said VMware's virtual GPU driver was running fast for Linux -- in comparison to Oracle's VM VirtualBox 3D guest acceleration support. This continues to be the case with VMware's OpenGL stack leading the way with superior support and performance.

VMware Has VMCI Ready For The Linux Kernel

phoronix.com: VMware is preparing to push VMCI support into the mainline Linux kernel...

VMware Preps To Push More Mainline Kernel Code

phoronix.com: To further enhance the Linux virtualization experience with VMware products, the company is preparing to push the Virtual Machine Communication Interface and VMCI Sockets into the mainline Linux kernel...

VMware Virtual GPU Driver Gets Fake Page-Flipping

phoronix.com: After thoroughly testing the VMware graphics driver stack yesterday and providing benchmarks, there's some new "vmwgfx" developments to report on...

VMware's Virtual GPU Driver Is Running Fast

phoronix.com: For the past few years VMware has been improving the graphics acceleration support that is available via their virtualization platform. VMware -- through their 2008 acquisition of Tungsten Graphics -- has effectively re-written their graphics driver for their virtual "SVGA II" GPU to take advantage of the Gallium3D driver architecture, a new acceleration architecture, and many other improvements.

VMware Merges "vmwgfx_branch" To Master

phoronix.com: Here's a heck of a Christmas present if you happen to be a VMware customer and use their virtualization software with Linux guests where the desktop experience is important: vmwgfx_branch has finally been merged to master! This merge touches over 16,000 lines of code in their X.Org graphics driver...

VMware Graphics Prepare To Leave Staging Area

phoronix.com: The VMware developers working on their "vmwgfx" graphics driver for Linux on their virtualization platform are preparing to have this driver leave the kernel's staging area and formally move into the Linux kernel DRM tree as one of the stable, mainline graphics drivers.