VMware Workstation Pro 26H1

VMware Workstation Pro is a desktop virtualization application that lets you run multiple operating systems as virtual machines on a single physical machine.

VMware Workstation Pro enables technical professionals to develop, test, demonstrate, and deploy software by running multiple x86-based Windows, Linux, and other operating systems simultaneously on the same PC.

You can replicate server, desktop, and tablet environments in a virtual machine and allocate multiple processor cores, gigabytes of main memory, and graphics memory to each virtual machine, whether the virtual machine resides on a personal PC or on a private enterprise cloud.

Changes in VMware Workstation Pro 26H1:

- Added support for 64-Bit VMware Workstation Pro for Windows: VMware Workstation Pro for Windows is now available as a 64-bit application and all binaries, libraries, installer components, and related services are delivered and executed as 64-bit processes.
- Recording and reporting time stamps: You can easily identify virtual machines virtual machines by creation and last powered-on time stamp.
- Added support for remote connections to ARM-based ESX hosts, enabling basic virtual machine operations.
- Displaying virtual machine notes in folder tabs.
- Updated the saved credential format: You can easily identify encrypted virtual machines and remote server in the credential manager of the host platform.
- Added support for guest and host operating systems: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora 43, Fedora 44, SUSE Linux Enterprise 16, openSUSE 16.0, FreeBSD 15.0.