I am running Ubuntu on a laptop which is powered by a Intel core i7-4800 (Haswell architecture).
I have a VM setup with Windows 7 for two applications which do not run with Wine. The problem is that both these applications need USB support to either a card reader or directly to a device.
The USB support in VMware player is good, but there are no hardware accelerated graphics available so Windows is running terribly slow (Virtualbox does support hardware acceleration on my laptop but it's USB support is terrible).
Is there a new version of vmware coming shortly which fully supports the hardware acceleration for the graphics chip in the Haswell CPU?