Let’s dive into why this matters, how to get it, and what this means for the future of local virtualization.

Broadcom’s strategy with VMware has been controversial in the enterprise server space, but regarding the desktop hypervisor market, they have delivered a gift to the developer community. By leveraging GitHub for distribution and removing the price barrier for personal use, they have ensured that .

Unlike many open-source projects where you compile the code yourself, the VMware GitHub repository currently serves as a distribution point for the official binaries.

⭐ (1/5) – Dangerous

Developers maintain several critical resources under the GitHub topic tag vmware-workstation-pro to assist with software procurement, automation, and OS patching:

For developers needing high-fidelity UI testing or 3D acceleration in VMs, VMware has just become the default recommendation over VirtualBox.