I eagerly installed VMware Workstation 8.0 today, hopeful that this update would have better support for replay debugging that would fix a longstanding bug in their GDB stub's handing of the 'monitor stopat' command. My enthusiasm lasted until I loaded the program for the first time, and though to myself:
That's funny. Where'd the "Record" button go?
After scouring the VMware support documentation and blogs, I finally discovered where it went. According to the blog of E. Lewis, an engineer at VMware:
The Workstation management team concluded that not enough people had demonstrated the need or invested the time necessary to configure and use the feature, so they decided to dedicate our engineers to features that would be used by more developers and other customers.
Yep, it's gone for good. Amidst a slew of new features added to Workstation 8, a very useful one — the whole reason I use virtual machined in development — was quietly removed. I'm very sorry to see it go. It will be interesting to see if VMware will ever reinstate this feature, or if a (small) swarm of angry developers can get together and implement the feature for some open source VM system.
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