workstation 10 unity linux guests

[matthewls]

Does ws 10 fully support current linux distributions as guests in unity mode?

[muddin]

Please have a look..

VMware Workstation 10.0 Release Notes

[matthewls]

I sought but did not find.

[WoodyZ]

matthewls wrote: Does ws 10 fully support current linux distributions as guests in unity mode?

If you look at Use Unity Mode in Using VMware Workstation it states the following...

■	For Linux guests and hosts, verify that a modern version of Metacity or KDE is installed. Performance on Linux depends on a combination of variables such as the system, the applications that are running, and the amount of RAM.

[WoodyZ]

muddin wrote: Please have a look.. VMware Workstation 10.0 Release Notes

The link you provided does not answer the question asked in the OP!

[matthewls]

I'm not sure I know the answer yet. WS9.02 did not fully support unity in Linux guests--the unity menus were blank and always stated "loading". WS10 release notes have the same description as WS9.2, so until someone reports testing this I'll remain skeptical.  It seems the issue with 9.x is with the OpenGL driver in modern Linux guests.

From WS9.0 release notes:

"Unity appears disabled for Ubuntu 12.04 guest
When you power on any guest using the Ubuntu Unity desktop environment (Ubuntu 11.10+), the Unity menu and Unity tool bar appears disabled. Unity is also disabled for guests using Compiz and Enlightenment window managers.

Unity has been disabled for Linux operating systems that include the new OpenGL driver. The new driver does not yet support running in Unity mode therefore the toolbar button and menu items will be disabled for virtual machines that include this driver."

For some reason this question has been marked "presumed answered" or something, but it's open. No one has posted successful use of unity with a linux guest under vmws10.

Message was edited by: matthewls