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Vmware community-version download is no longer searchable on vmware.com website. Only a 30-day registration-free (it doesn't say "trial") version of VMWare Wor
by egberts1 3y ago
Vmware community-version download is no longer searchable on vmware.com website.
Only a 30-day registration-free (it doesn't say "trial") version of VMWare Workstation Pro 16 but you would probably need to fork over your credit card afterward.
In short, Broadcom hamfisted the VMWare way into only a full-commercial product ... as originally planned.
- henriquez 3y agoI would be concerned if the next version of VMWare Workstation was subscription-only. I think VMWare has some nicer tools around snapshots and networking, but if they want to move to a rent model I’d be back to Virtualbox in a heartbeat.
- hilbert42 3y ago"I’d be back to Virtualbox in a heartbeat." Trouble is that VirtualBox could easily go the same way. As VMware has shifted model it's now easy for VirtualBox to follow suit as there's no competing alternative or equivalent. And Oracle has form in this regard, look at the way it dumped OpenOffice after it decided it couldn't monetarize it.
- failsecured 3y agoDon't forget that KVM and QEMU are great alternatives to Virtualbox depending on ones needs (OS host, kernel vs user mode, hw acceleration).
- henriquez 3y agoVirtualbox is FOSS as long as you don’t install the extension pack, so worst-case scenario it gets forked.