VMware Workstation Pro

Professional desktop virtualisation, now free

About VMware Workstation Pro

VMware Workstation Pro is a desktop hypervisor for running multiple operating systems as virtual machines on Windows and Linux PCs. Broadcom made it free for personal and commercial use, with features such as snapshots, clones, virtual networks and container support. It suits people who want a dependable tool for this job that stays fast, stays focused and does not demand a long learning process before it becomes useful.

VMware Workstation Pro key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: virtualization, vm, professional
Official site: vmware.com

About the Developer Tools category

Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 738 tools. Alongside VMware Workstation Pro, it includes Podman Desktop, Rancher Desktop, Lens, Beyond Compare.

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More in Developer Tools

Comparing tools in the Developer Tools category? These related listings are worth a look: Podman Desktop — Manage containers and Kubernetes locally; Rancher Desktop — Kubernetes and containers on the desktop; Lens — The Kubernetes IDE for clusters and workloads.