To support these means accepting the limitations of these capabilities - some of which have led to performance issues and 'missing functionality' over the VMware native hypervisor. Hyper-V is becoming very ubiquitous in Windows). It seems that both Microsoft and Apple are pushing for the use of native hypervisor capabilities (e.g. Not to say that a GPU pass-through wouldn't be nice for some developers that are trying to use GPUs as compute accelerators. From what I'm interpreting on some public statements by there are some synergies in the development process (think what they're doing with Tanzu) that they believe the desktop products provide. To item 2: I'm quite confident that consumers, gamers and 'I need to run Windows on Macs' are not high on VMware's goals like they are for some competitors.

How do the desktop products fit into the overall product strategy.

how can we reuse intellectual property from vSphere to keep our costs down and compatibility with vSphere.

I'm not of that opinion, but I think there is a feeling within VMware of I don't think there's a feeling that the desktop products will jeopardize sells of vSphere. I would appreciate SR-IOV support for network cards but I'm afraid it's the same story.

Personally (like others, I am not and never were affiliated with VMware) I think VMware does not want to introduce this kind of features in their 'desktop' products so that they do not jeopardize sells of their 'enterprise' products. That would be nice but I don't think it's likely. Direct access to video cards via IOMMU from a virtual machine would be very nice.

More curious what's going to be in version 17.

94fbr vmware workstation 16