Current icon of VMware Workstation Pro used since Version 15.0
Developer(s)
VMware
Initial release
1999[1]
Stable release
17.5.2[2]
/ 14 May 2024; 7 days ago (14 May 2024)
Written in
C, C++
Operating system
Windows Linux
Platform
x86-64 only[3] (version 11.x and above, previous versions were available for IA-32 as well)
Type
Hypervisor
License
Freeware and commercial
Website
www.vmware.com/products/workstation-pro.html
VMware Workstation Pro (known as VMware Workstation until release of VMware Workstation 12 in 2015) is a hosted (Type 2) hypervisor that only runs on x64 versions of Windows and Linux operating systems.[4] There used to be an IA-32 version for earlier versions for the software.[3] It enables users to set up virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical machine and use them simultaneously along with the host machine. Each virtual machine can execute its own operating system, including versions of Microsoft Windows, Linux, BSD, and MS-DOS. VMware Workstation is developed and sold by VMware, Inc. There is a free-of-charge version called VMware Workstation Player (known as VMware Player until release of VMware Workstation 12 in 2015), for non-commercial use. An operating systems license is needed to use proprietary ones such as Windows. Ready-made Linux VMs set up for different purposes are available from several sources.
VMware Workstation supports bridging existing host network adapters and sharing physical disk drives and USB devices with a virtual machine. It can simulate disk drives; an ISO image file can be mounted as a virtual optical disc drive, and virtual hard disk drives are implemented as .vmdk files.
VMware Workstation Pro can save the state of a virtual machine (a "snapshot") at any instant. These snapshots can later be restored, effectively returning the virtual machine to the saved state,[5] as it was and free from any post-snapshot damage to the VM.
VMware Workstation includes the ability to group multiple virtual machines in an inventory folder. The machines in such a folder can then be powered on and powered off as a single object, useful for testing complex client-server environments.
^Thiruvathukal, George K; Hinsen, Konrad; Läufer, Konstantin; Kaylor, Joe (2010). "Virtualization for Computational Scientists". Computing in Science & Engineering. 12 (4): 52–61. Bibcode:2010CSE....12d..52T. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2010.92. ISSN 1521-9615. S2CID 6472898.
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