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What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.5 Platform

Graphic Acceleration for Linux Guests

With vSphere 5.5, graphic acceleration is now possible for Linux guest OSs. Leveraging a GPU on a vSphere host can help improve the performance and scalability of all graphics-related operations. In providing this support, VMware also is the first to develop a new guest driver that accelerates the entire Linux graphics stack for modern Linux distributions. VMware also is contributing 100 percent of the Linux guest driver code back to the open-source community. This means that any modern GNU/Linux distribution can package the VMware guest driver and provide out-of-the-box support for accelerated graphics without any additional tools or package installation.

The following Linux distributions are supported:

• Ubuntu: 12.04 and later

• Fedora: 17 and later

• RHEL 7

With the new guest driver, modern Linux distributions are enabled to support technologies such as

the following:

• OpenGL 2.1

• DRM kernel mode setting

• Xrandr

• XRender

• Xv

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