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VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Now Free for Personal Use!
VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Now Free for Personal Use!
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There is major news coming from VMware by Broadcom today. They have decided to release VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro for free. This is evidently to allow more to use the Workstation hypervisor apps for personal use. We explore this announcement and how you can download and install the…
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Was talking to my financial consultant yesterday and told him NOT to invest in anything that has Broadcom in the portfolio. They can shoot themselves in their foot; NOT MINE!
Giving free pennies while sucking blood massively from Long term users,.
Great, I have been paying for this for years, so am I still stuck paying for it? Also I have 3 licenses. The Fusion product sucks in my view. If I could get my VM Ware clients moved to VirtualBox successfully I would dump VM Ware.
Honestly, this Broadcom buy over is a mess for people like me. I have a licensed copy of the VMWare Workstation Pro. Now my question is what is the situation? I tried downloading the vmware workstation pro executable and I was directed to a portal where when I click for download, the site comes up saying that "account verification is under progress please try again later". What verification do they need when I own a paid version of the product
Well this sucks because I already purchased it last month.
'If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product." – I'll just leave that here………………………………
Does Workstation still support remote connections? I thought I heard that feature was removed, but haven't checked in a while.
VMWare: We screwed up and here is a half eaten chocolate chip cookie to try and get you back. So many of us have fled to VirtualBox, XCP-ng, ProxMox.
They should make esxi and vsphere free to use on workstation. No business would run these on top of workstation so it would make learning the ecosystem really easy for folks and not potentially let people use things for free in production.
What I am wondering is the capability limitations with the personal use edition. Is there a limit on the number of VMs you can run? Is there certain features that’s not supported in the personal use version?
Just a panic step…
They basically killed VmWhore forever.
It’s done!
Nobody ever will trust them.
have been using VM Ware Workstation Pro for personal use since version 7. I am an IT admin (25 years now) and I use it to keep a library of Operating systems so I can test software on virtual machines and virtual networks.
While this may seem like great news…. it makes me worried that they will stop developing this product.
All I get when I attempt to download it is a pop-up to sign up for the VMware "Cloud". No download. WHERE IS THE DOWNLOADABLE FILE ?
Sorry, this doesn't work. There is no way to get the download downloading. As soon as you click on download, another screen pops up requesting to sign in to Digital River "CloudVista", "coming soon".
for personal use I was finding dodgy keys and just registering it 😀
Thank you.
Technically if you are on Windows you don't need a 3rd party type2 hypervisor because Hyper-V already comes baked in every Windows edition. Just enable it from windows features.
This is great but I wish esxi was still free
What is the difference between the workstation pro and fusion ?
Been personally using it for free for years (don't ask). Curious if they are still going to update it now or will need a Broadcom account for later on for new versions. At least it's free now. Not bad for a great product.
This is not comparable to Esxi. I have been moved to Proxmox. Goodbye.
I think KVM/QEMU is the best.
Problems with Account Creation/Signon. Registered with Password but when logging in it asks for username. I wasn't prompted to put in username when I created my account.
What's the catch? The catch is it's Broadcom. they can go F5 Labs themselves as far as i care.
And when there ll be more free user they ll be charging a monthly fee, no thanks, not again…
"So, why are they doing this?"
Because they fucked up and don't want to find out.
Have you done a head to head between VMWare and libvirt/qemu on a Linux host? I was using Fusion on a Mac "server", but moved to a Linux host server when the ARM writing was on the wall for Apple.
An Olive branch to us "allowing us to download and use". That's rich. I will still give VMWare by Broadcom a Hard Pass! Not to mention Workstation does not suit my or my customer's needs.
But I am sure this will make some happy and thanks for bringing us this news Brandon.