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VMware LLC is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. [2] VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. [3] VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Full virtualization was not fully available on the x86 platform prior to 2005. Many platform hypervisors for the x86 platform came very close and claimed full virtualization (such as Adeos, Mac-on-Linux, Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels Workstation, VMware Workstation, VMware Server (formerly GSX Server), VirtualBox, Win4BSD, and Win4Lin Pro).
October 24, 2005 VMware releases VMware Player, a free player for virtual machines. Sun releases Solaris 10, including Solaris Zones, for both x86/x64 and SPARC systems. 2006. July 12, 2006 VMware releases VMware Server, a free machine-level virtualization product for the server market. Microsoft Virtual PC 2006 is released as a free program ...
VMware Player was available for personal non-commercial use, [5] or for distribution or other use by written agreement. [6] VMware, Inc. did not formally support Player, but there was an active community website for discussing and resolving issues, [7] and a knowledge base. [8]
Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often providing multiple virtual machines on one physical platform. The table below compares basic information about platform virtualization hypervisors.
Nested virtualization becomes more necessary as widespread operating systems gain built-in hypervisor functionality, which in a virtualized environment can be used only if the surrounding hypervisor supports nested virtualization; for example, Windows 7 is capable of running Windows XP applications inside a built-in virtual machine.
VMware ESXi (formerly ESX) is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware, a subsidiary of Broadcom, for deploying and serving virtual computers.As a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi is not a software application that is installed on an operating system (OS); instead, it includes and integrates vital OS components, such as a kernel.
VMware Workstation Pro (known as VMware Workstation until release of VMware Workstation 12 in 2015) is a hosted (Type 2) hypervisor that runs on x64 versions of Windows and Linux operating systems. [4]