Run the apps that keep you most productive, wherever you want to use them. As all users who ever worked with virtual machines know, they are stored on hard drives just as archives that can be activated and loaded by a wide variety of VMware software players, of which VMware Player aims to be the best one, lightweight and being able to be used in any situation. VMware Player also lets you restore the virtual machine to its previous state, thus preventing any unwanted changes made to your computer. We’ve also fixed a number of bugs, improved performance (most noticeably around host-guest file sharing and vm shutdown times), and added a number of important security fixes.VMware Workstation Player lets you launch any previously created virtual machines on your computer - this makes testing and installing different applications easy and safe. From there select one of the options with another keystroke (i.e. Use ‘Ctrl-Alt-M’ in full screen mode to bring up the Monitor Layout menu. Users of multi-monitor setups can take advantage of our new display-layout shortcut key.

Workstation is updated to support the latest versions of Microsoft Windows and the major Open Source distributions:

No need to change virtual devices and settings when migrating workloads between Workstation and vSphere! New OS support Workstation 15.5 introduces the pvscsi device, bringing improved desktop-to-datacenter compatibility for many virtual machine and OVA/OVF templates. Run a full NSX deployment on vSphere on your local system (sufficient CPU/RAM/Disk resources required, of course!).

Still on Workstation 14 or 12.5? Upgrade Here! Whats New Jumbo FramesĬonfigure the MTU size of your virtual networks (Pro only) up to 9194 bytes for nested virtual lab environment testing and replication. Our major release this year comes as a free upgrade for existing version 15 customers, with upgrade discounts available for v12 and v14 customers.ĭirect Windows download ::: Direct Linux downloadĭirect Player for Windows download ::: Direct Player for Linux download It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce the immediate availability of VMware Workstation 15.5 Pro and Player!

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