Somehow I missed this - VMware Fusion is now free for personal use. I've just dl'd a copy of 12.01 and VMware provided a perpetual license. It's nice to have a free/gratis alternative to Virtual Box.

When Broadcom acquired VMware two years ago, many longtime VMware users were thrown into uncertainty. The most jarring change ...

When we tried to turn on a virtual machine on VMware Workstation after closing it, we encountered an error that said the machine was already in use. Users have ...

Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...

Horizon 7 includes Blast Extreme, a new remote display protocol. Blast Extreme is an interesting new feature, touted by VMware as being comparable to PCoIP. In order to work with the protocol, and ...

Since Broadcom closed its acquisition of VMware in November 2023, there has been much noise from industry pundits and the press. Some of the noise focused on licensing and pricing changes. Some of it ...

I am looking for best practices or just other ideas on how folks use ZVOLs with VMware. Historically I have created large ZVOLs, served them up over iSCSI, added them as datastores, and placed ...

Good news! You no longer need to spend hundreds of dollars just to set up a virtual PC, whether it’s to try Linux or test other Windows versions. VMware Workstation ...

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Organisations using VMware now have no choice but to buy an annual subscription for a bundled product if they plan to continue using the hypervisor. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, ...

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VMware eases the use of SmartNICs based on digital processing units to handle networking, security, storage, and other processes, freeing up enterprise-server CPU cycles. While it is clearly early in ...