Broadcom, which acquired VMware's business a year ago, has introduced new distribution terms for proprietary virtualization products for workstations \u2014 VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion, which operate on Linux, Windows, and macOS platforms. The possibility of free personal use provided in the spring has now been expanded to cover all applications, including commercial use. <\/p>\n
The distribution of individual paid products Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro, which were previously available via paid subscription, has been discontinued. The freely distributed versions of VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion will include all the features available in the paid 'Pro' versions. Broadcom will continue to support the code base and actively invest in developing new capabilities. As before, new versions of VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion will be released regularly and will go through a complete quality control cycle. <\/p>\n
Users who previously had technical support agreements will still be able to contact support directly or use resources from the support portal. After the support agreement expires, it will not be possible to extend it, and those clients, like all others, are encouraged to seek support online through user forums and documentation catalogs. It is noted that the company aims to be more customer-oriented \u2014 transitioning VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion to a free system will allow them to increase their user base, helping them better understand user needs and requests, and use this information to optimize and improve the quality of their products. <\/p>\n
Let us remind you that Broadcom intends to transition the Linux versions of VMware Workstation to use a hypervisor KVM<\/a> instead of its proprietary virtualization code. 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