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In May 2024, Workstation Pro became free of charge for personal use, with paid subscriptions available for commercial use, while the free restricted VMware Workstation Player (known as VMware Player) was dropped. [5] In November 2024, VMware Workstation was made free for commercial use, with paid subscriptions and support no longer available. [6]
The free VMware Player was distinct from VMware Workstation until Player v7, Workstation v11. In 2015 the two packages were combined as VMware Workstation 12, with a free for non-commercial use restricted Player version which, on purchase of a license code, either became the higher-specification VMware Workstation Pro, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] or allowed ...
VMware Workstation: VMware x86-64 [b] x86, x86-64 Windows, Linux Same as VMware ESX Server Proprietary: VMware Player, later VMware Workstation Player VMware x86-64 [c] x86, x86-64 Windows, Linux Same as VMware ESX Server Proprietary, free for personal non-commercial use [11] [12] Wind River Hypervisor Wind River x86, x86-64, PowerPC, ARM Same ...
On September 8, 2016, VMware announced the release of Workstation 12.5 and Fusion 8.5 as a free upgrade supporting Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. [ 34 ] In April 2016, VMware president and COO Carl Eschenbach left VMware to join Sequoia Capital , and Martin Casado , VMware's general manager for its Networking and Security business, left to ...
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).
VMware ThinApp (formerly Thinstall) is an application virtualization and portable application creator suite by VMware that can package conventional Windows applications [3] into portable applications capable of running on another operating system. According to VMware, the product has a success rate of about 90–95% in packaging applications.
Examples outside the mainframe field include Parallels Workstation, Parallels Desktop for Mac, VirtualBox, Virtual Iron, Oracle VM, Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Hyper-V, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Server (discontinued, formerly called GSX Server), VMware ESXi, QEMU, Adeos, Mac-on-Linux, Win4BSD, Win4Lin Pro, and Egenera vBlade ...
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and, optionally, the CDDL for most files of the source distribution, VirtualBox is free and open-source software, though the Extension Pack is proprietary software, free of charge only to personal users. The License to VirtualBox was relicensed to GPLv3 with linking exceptions to the ...