Vista issues for WPF Developer

[GDeanBlakely]

I'm a .Net software developer and I have used VM Workstation successfully for some time now. I'm doing some WPF development now that brings up some Vista issues and questions...

Although my laptop will get a Vista Base Score of about 4 (I'm pretty sure) it gets only 1.0 when I run a Vista Image. Is this a limitation of VMWARE? Obviously this keeps me from testing Aero features.

Vista utilizes hardware to do 3D anti-aliasing and hardware accelleration on translucent and non-rectangular windows. Will it do the same in a VMWARE image?

I'm hoping that I can go a while without having to buy another computer for my WPF development.

Thanks,

Gary

[RDPetruska]

The current generation of virtual hardware does NOT support all the features which Vista wants for its eye candy. The development group claims that they're working on a newer virtual video adapter, but it will not be released until after the Workstation 6.0 release (IOW, not in the initial release of 6.0).

[GDeanBlakely]

This is probably the reason my base score on my Vista VM is 1.0?

Gary