This statement reminds me of the great new Mac ad “ Legal Copy”.īy the way, if you do not have a copy of VMware Workstation, now is a great time to download a free trial and give both Workstation and Windows 7 a try at the same time. We plan to support Windows 7 as a guest OS in a future release.
However, before we go further, I want to remind you that Windows 7 RC, both 32-bit and 64-bit, is not an officially supported guest at this time. I am happy to report that you can run Windows 7 RC in a VMware Workstation 6.5.2 VM with all the great features you have come to love, including file drag and drop, text copy and paste, automatic screen resize, shared folders, and Unity. There’s been a lot of buzz flying around about Windows 7 and what better way to try out a new operating system and see how it works than in a virtual machine. After trying to download it for ½ a day, ( MSDN & TechNet crashed) we finally got our copy and started playing with it. Like many of you, the Workstation team scrambled to download the release candidate as soon as it was made available to us.
Yes, it works! Now start downloading the Windows 7 RC and continue reading.
