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VMware Player was available for personal non-commercial use, [5] or for distribution or other use by written agreement. [6] VMware, Inc. did not formally support Player, but there was an active community website for discussing and resolving issues, [7] and a knowledge base. [8]
VMware Workstation Pro (known as VMware Workstation until release of VMware Workstation 12 in 2015) is a hosted (Type 2) hypervisor that runs on x64 versions of Windows and Linux operating systems. [4]
VMware LLC is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. [2] VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. [3] VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.
In November 2022, VMware Fusion 13 was released, allowing ARM virtualization on Apple Silicon chips. Coinciding with the release, VMware implemented support for TPM 2.0 and OpenGL 4.3, along with improvements to VMware Tools on Windows 11. [11] VMware Fusion 13 retains support for Intel Macs, distributing the software as a universal binary. [12]
VMware ESXi (formerly ESX) is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware, a subsidiary of Broadcom, for deploying and serving virtual computers.As a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi is not a software application that is installed on an operating system (OS); instead, it includes and integrates vital OS components, such as a kernel.
[17] [19] [20] Other virtual machine software such as VMWare Workstation and VMware Player can mount raw floppy images in the same way. [21] Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 (version 6.1) does not offer a user interface for manipulating virtual floppy disks; however, it still supports physical and virtual floppy disks via scripting. [22]
Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009. [10] It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly three years earlier. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released at the ...
VMware VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is VMware, Inc.'s clustered file system used by the company's flagship server virtualization suite, vSphere. It was developed to store virtual machine disk images, including snapshots. Multiple servers can read/write the same filesystem simultaneously while individual virtual machine files are locked.