November 19, 2011 
This past week on 11/17/11 VMware released the 8.0.1 update for VMware Workstation. This is a free update from VMware for any Workstation 8 users.
From the Release Notes – Highlights of VMware Workstation 8.0.1 functionality include:
- Graphics performance and compatibility enhancements.
- Improvements in creating and using shared virtual machines and remote virtual machines.
- Ubuntu 11.10 is officially supported as a guest operating system.
- Disk and memory management issues have been addressed.
- Many customer-reported issues have been resolved.
VMware Workstation 8.0.1 Release Notes
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Followup blog article from VMware on the Graphics performance enhancement of Workstation 8.0.1
http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2011/12/workstation-801-and-ie-9-graphics-acceleration.html
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