I love using Virtual Machines for doing development and testing beta software. But, why is the new VMware Workstation 6.5 RC1 a 544MB download?
VMware Workstation 5.0 was 57MB.
VMware Workstation 6.0 was 330MB.
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August 27th, 2008 @8:46 pm
I suppose I should be thankful that it’s not 2GB! 
October 12th, 2008 @10:28 pm
Well, WS 6.5 for Windows is that big probably because it has both 32 and 64-bit versions in the same executable!
You can see that the Linux versions are around 380 MB as they have separate versions for 32 and 64-bit systems!
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Welcome to software bloat…….
think about it…. if WS5 to WS6 was 6 times the size, so….. that means WS6.5 could have been upto 2GB! to stay inline.
As its only a .5 release, lets say 3 times the size, so thats only 1630mb!
But yes a nearly 10 times increase in download size from WS5 to WS6.5