

Workstation 16 supports gaming with Direct3D 11, aka DirectX 11 or OpenGL 4.1. You can also perform configuration settings changes, provide workload mobility, and compability between desktips and data center virtual environments. You can now connect to your vSphere 7 environment with the new versions to perform many different operations including remote virtual machine management in your vSphere environment. It will be shipping with both Fusion and Workstation Pro. It contains a Docker compatible implementation of containerd. This allows user to push, pull, build and run OCI container images and you can also deploy kind Kubernetes clusters. The last tech preview of VMware Workstation contained a new CLI tool – vctl.

Let’s take a bit closer look at each one of these one by one.

