New features of Studio 2.0 are:
- Build vApps and virtual appliances (with in-guest OS and application components) compatible with VMware Infrastructure, VMware vSphere 4.0 and the cloud
- Support for OVF 1.0 and 0.9
- Available as an Eclipse plugin in addition to the standalone version
- Ability to accept existing, Studio-created VM builds as input
- Support for 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows 2003 and 2008 Server, SLES 10.2, RHEL 5.2 and 5.3, CentOS 5.2 and 5.3, Ubuntu 8.0.4.1 and additional operating systems
- Publish patches to update deployed virtual appliances
- Extensible in-guest management framework
- Automatic Dependency resolution
- VMware ESX Server, VMware ESXi, VMware Server 2.0, Server 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, VMware Workstation enabled as provisioning engines
- Infrastructure enhancements in the GUI and builds
