VMware

VMware is a company that develops virtualization solutions, which are collectively referred to by the company's name. These include VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation Player, and VMware Fusion. VMware products are one of the most commonly used hypervisors due to being able to install various operating systems without much support or additional drivers.

Supported guest operating systems
A list of officially supported OSes that can run on VMware.


 * MS-DOS and compatible operating systems
 * Most Microsoft Windows versions (VMware Tools available for most versions starting with Windows 95 OSR2)
 * Most versions of Linux
 * VMware ESXi
 * eComStation
 * Solaris 10 and later (8 and 9 are available but unsupported)
 * Novell NetWare
 * Most Intel macOS versions (Mac OS X Snow Leopard and later, only officially supported on VMware Fusion)
 * FreeBSD

Sound cards

 * Creative SoundBlaster 16
 * Creative AudioPCI ES1371
 * Intel HD Audio

Network adapters

 * AMD PCnet-FAST III
 * Intel PRO/1000 MT
 * VMware VMXnet

SCSI adapters

 * BusLogic
 * LSI Logic
 * LSI Logic SAS

x86

 * VMware Workstation 0.9
 * VMware Workstation 1.0
 * VMware Workstation 1.1
 * VMware Workstation 2.x
 * VMware Workstation 3.x
 * VMware Workstation 4.0
 * VMware Workstation 4.5
 * VMware Workstation 5.0
 * VMware Workstation 5.5
 * VMware Workstation 6.0
 * VMware Workstation 6.5
 * VMware Workstation 7.0
 * VMware Workstation 7.1
 * VMware Workstation 8.0
 * VMware Workstation 9.0
 * VMware Workstation 10.x

x64

 * VMware Workstation 11.x
 * VMware Workstation 12.x
 * VMware Workstation 14.x
 * VMware Workstation 15.x
 * VMware Workstation 16.x
 * VMware Workstation 17.x