After doing that, your cursor will focus on your main OS, and you'll be able to use it.įirstly, we need the installation file of VMware Workstation Player 16. When working on a VM, you'll need to return to your main OS often, and in these times, you can hit CTRL + ALT combination on your keyboard. When using a virtual machine, you need to left-click on its screen to activate and make accessible it. 2 GB RAM minimum (4 GB RAM recommended).1 GHz or faster 64-Bit CPU (2 GHz recommended),.If you use virtual machines for everyday purposes, VMware Workstation Player will be the most suitable solution for you.Īfter this introduction, let's start the guide with the download step. Although VMware is a paid software, it has a free version for non-commercial use. Trying to install VIX 1.17 from above generates errors.In this guide, I'll show you how to install VMware (actually its full name is VMware Workstation 16 Player) on Windows for free legally. It does not come with VIX pre-installed at this time. That leaves us with VMware Player 16.x on Linux hosts. It is also installed on Workstation for Linux afaik. Player will even continue to work after the Professional trial runs out.įor VMware Workstation 16.x, on Windows hosts VIX is already installed for both VMware Workstation Professional as well as VMware Player. So for older versions of VMware Workstation, you can install Workstation and use VMware Player from that install. However you might have problems installing.Ī few notes, before VMware Workstation 16.x, on Windows you would need to install VIX manually for VMware Player.įor VMware Workstation Professional however it comes bundled with VMware VIX and installs it on your behalf. These however works, but you do need to login: The link for the API page no longer offers a working download (strange) Whitepaper: Migrating From VIX API to the vSphere Guest Operations API Download Vmrun commands (see also VIX API link above) Supported on VMware Workstation 6.0.x and up, VMware Server 1.x and up, VMware ESX3.5U2+ VIX allows you to automate virtual machine operations and is the engine behind for example VMware's vmrun command.

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