I am happy to report that you can run Windows 7 RC in a VMware Workstation 6.5.2 VM with all the great features you have come to love, including file drag and drop, text copy and paste, automatic screen resize, shared folders, and Unity. There’s been a lot of buzz flying around about Windows 7 and what better way to try out a new operating system and see how it works than in a virtual machine. After trying to download it for ½ a day, ( MSDN & TechNet crashed) we finally got our copy and started playing with it.
Like many of you, the Workstation team scrambled to download the release candidate as soon as it was made available to us. Yes, it works! Now start downloading the Windows 7 RC and continue reading.