Students and Faculty of accredited educational institutions can use VMware Player for free if they are members of the VMware Academic Program. If you would like to learn about Virtual Machines or use them at home you are welcome to use VMware Player for Free. VMware Player is free for personal non-commercial use. If you're not a developer and don't need snapshots, you'll probably be just fine with the free for non-commercial use VMware Player version, which still gives you the ability to both create and run VMs. Testing local boot devices, using USB 3.0 devices in a VM, faster than ESXi's limited USB 3.0 support, that I demonstrated here.įor far more detail and explanation of why the free VMware Player may be adequate for many users needs, see also VMware Player is a free way to play with VMs by Paul Braren Jan 02 2012. Software development and testing with multiple monitor support, where winding back the clock of a running VM is quite handy, as are multiple displays, like on my desk. New Release of VMware Workstation 10 – Now Available! by Nicolas Rochard Sep 04 2013. And migration between these virtualization platforms has become pretty seamless. Here's the detailed VMware blog post/announcement of this new Workstation release, with all the technical goodies explained:

Most of my VMs have been moved to my dedicated-for-virtualization vZilla Core i7 that's running ESXi 5.5 24x7, but there are still occasions where having VMware Workstation and/or the Player can be very handy.

This family of products is now in its 13th year, and I have quite the library of VMs built up over that period of time. Today marks the release of a new revision of VMware Workstation.

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