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In order to run VMware Workstation 16 properly, you must install the required packages to build the VMware kernel modules: Sudo apt install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)Ĭhmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-16.2.3-19376536.x86_64.bundle In order to run VMware Workstation 17 properly, you must install the required packages to build the VMware kernel modules: VMware Workstation can be easily installed on Debian by downloading the required bundle and executing the following commands:Ĭhmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-17.0.0-20800274.x86_64.bundle

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VMware Workstation Player can easily be installed by downloading the relevant bundle and then running as root eg sudo sh VMware-Player-15.5.6-16341506.x86_64.bundle on a an vmplayer is useful for running a single VM guest. It does emulate various hardware devices like network, graphics and audio cards. VMware is not a true emulator, it doesn't emulate a CPU like Bochs does, it wraps CPU commands around. You can use it for example to convert your physical installations or other virtual machines types to a VMware virtual environment.Ĭommercial products like VMware Workstation Pro is available for Linux. VMware vCenter Converter is zero-cost and allows you to convert your physical OS to a virtual environment OS. Both Windows and a Linux versions are available.įor Free Software alternatives see our SystemVirtualization section. It allows you to run any x86 compatible OS in a kind of 'sandbox' - inside the VMware virtual machine you can run other operating systems like Windows, FreeBSD or some other version of Linux. VMware is a proprietary and commercial PC virtualization solution running on amd64 compatible CPUs ( supported CPUs), since version 11.

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