It is our pleasure and privilege to announce the upcoming VMware Desktop Hypervisor product lines for 2020: VMware Fusion 12, and VMware Workstation 16. Now, every time we want to run VMware we just have to go to our menu and run it.Announcing: VMware Fusion 12 and Workstation 16 Once we are done with the wizard, VMware will be installed in the kernel headers and it will be ready to go. This wizard is in English but its operation is similar to the Windows wizards where the Next button is the most common in these installations. VMware-Workstation-Full-16.0.0-16894299.x86_64.bundleīehind this a visual installation wizard will open. While there, we write the following: chmod a+x VMware-Workstation-Full-16.0.0-16894299.x86_64.bundle Once we have downloaded the installation package, we open a terminal and go to the folder where that installation package is.
Here, we just have to download the package for the Linux version as well as the package corresponding to our platformthat is, the 64-bit package or the 32-bit package.
How to install this new version of VMWare Workstation Pro 16 on Linux?įor those who are interested in being able to install this new version of VMware, they should know that the process is quite simple.Īll they have to do is obtain the installation package from their official website, we can obtain it through this link where we will find the package for Windows and for Gnu / Linux.
In this new version some significant changes have been made, one of them is the added support for new guest operating systems: RHEL 8.2, Debian 10.5, Fedora 32, CentOS 8.2, SLE 15 SP2 GA, FreeBSD 11.4 and ESXi 7.0įor Windows 7 and higher and Linux guests with vmwgfx driver, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 are now supported, with the following restrictions: Windows hosts require DirectX 11 support, Linux hosts require NVIDIA binary drivers with OpenGL 4.5 and higher support.įor host operating systems Linux with Intel / Vulkan drivers, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3 are now supported.īesides that improved file transfer speed between guest and host, guest shutdown time was reduced, performance on NVMe drives has been improved. VMWare Workstation Pro 16 Key New Features
1 VMWare Workstation Pro 16 Key New Features.These snapshots can be restored later, effectively returning the virtual machine to the saved state, as it was and free of any post-snapshot corruption on the virtual machine. VMware Workstation Pro can save the state of a virtual machine (a "snapshot") at any time.
You can simulate disk drives An ISO image file can be mounted as a virtual optical disk drive, and virtual hard drives are implemented as. VMware Workstation supports connection of existing host network adapters and sharing physical disk drives and USB devices with a virtual machine. Allows users to configure virtual machines (VM) on a single physical machine and use them simultaneously together with the host machine.Įach virtual machine can run its own operating system, including versions of Microsoft Windows, Linux, BSD, and MS-DOS.
The release of the new version of VMWare Workstation Pro 16, in which support is added to be able to work with RHEL 8.2, Debian 10.5, Fedora 32, CentOS 8.2, SLE 15 SP2 GA, FreeBSD 11.4, and ESXi 7.0, plus improvements to support for USB 3 and other things.įor those who are unfamiliar with VMware Workstation Pro, you should know that is a hosted hypervisor which runs on 圆4 versions of Windows and Linux operating systems.