Workstation

VMware Fusion and Workstation are Now Free for All Users

Starting November 11, 2024 both desktop hypervisor products VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion will be available for free to everyone—commercial, educational, and personal users alike. This was announced in this VMware blog article.

VMware Workstation is the desktop hypervisor for Windows and Linux. VMware Fusion is its counterpart for MacOS. 

VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use

In May 2024 VMware by Broadcom announced that their personal virtualization software is now available for free for personal use. This is for VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.

VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use

Because these are now available for free the previous free to use software Player for both Windows and MacOS is now no longer available. 

Ideas for a vSphere home lab in Workstation or Fusion

In this article I would like to share a few ideas on how to setup a lab environment for vSphere. When I deliver VMware-training it is a frequently asked question by my students how they could run the software in their own lab-environment. For those who own multiple physical servers on which they can run ESXi it is not too difficult. But when your resources are limited you might need to look at other possibilities.

Install ESXi in a VMware Workstation virtual machine

When you don't have hardware that supports running ESXi and you want to setup this OS for testing or educational purposes then installing it in a VMware Workstation virtual machine allows you to run the OS on generic hardware. This article explains how to do this. It is based on VMware Workstation version 10 and ESXi version 5.5. Doing this is also know as running a nested hypervisor because it runs on another virtualization technology. 

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