New Features:

• New Operating System Support
  • Support has been added for the following guest operating systems:
    • 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
  • Hardware versions introduce new virtual hardware functionality and new features while enabling VMware to run legacy operating systems in virtual machines. New features included in this hardware version:
  • New CPU enablement, including Intel Haswell microarchitecture extension support.
    • VMware Player 7 is 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