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Re: VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use

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Jim <jim@bnhjmnhjmn.com> wrote:

> <https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2024/05/vmware-workstation-pro-now-available-free-for-personal-use.html>
> 
> <https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productdownloads?subfamily=VMware+Workstation+Pro>
> 
> <https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productdownloads?subfamily=VMware+Fusion>

Here is one of many articles that compare the VMware Workstation Player
(free) to the VMware Workstation Pro (paid) which I used to just call
Player and Pro since Workstation really wasn't a differentiating term in
the product titles:

https://www.diskinternals.com/vmfs-recovery/vmware-workstation-pro-vs-player/

To me, the 2 features I did not realize the VMware Player (free) did not
support were: run multiple concurrent VMs, and VM snapshots.  I trialed
both VMware Workstation Player and Virtualbox, and had decided to go
with Virtualbox.  Been with that when it was owned by Sun, and later
when Oracle acquired Sun (users were concerned about the survival of
Virtualbox when Oracle snagged it).  Been a few years since I have used
a VMM (Virtual Machine Manager).  I remember with Virtualbox having
multiple VMs running at the same time (and why I got gobs of memory to
divvy up between them), and snapshotting afforded a means of VM state
backups allowing me to choose which state (snapshot) to use rather than
having to step atop a current state by restoring from backups.  As I
recall, with VMware Player, I got the equivalent of snapshots by copying
the .vmd virtual disk file to keep that state, and choose which to load
at the time I loaded a VM.

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VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use Jim <jim@bnhjmnhjmn.com> - 2025-01-17 03:00 +0000
  Re: VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-01-17 04:25 -0600
    Re: VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-17 08:10 -0500
      Re: VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-01-17 08:16 -0600
  Re: VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-17 16:58 -0600
    Re: VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2025-01-18 17:56 +1300
      Re: VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-18 05:55 -0600

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