VMware Player 7 is now available for download. What’s new in this release?
New Operating System Support
Windows 8.1 Update
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 Technical Preview (Experimental support)
Ubuntu 14.10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
CentOS 7
OpenSUSE 13.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12
VMware Hardware Version 11
New CPU enablement, including Intel Haswell microarchitecture extension support.
optimized to take advantage of new Haswell extensions, delivering up to 45% improvement in CPU-intensive operations like multimedia, encryption/decryption, and other strenuous performance tests.
Updated xHCI controller
Updated NDIS drive
Allocate up to 2GB video memory to a virtual machine
