VMware Workstation Pro is the industry standard desktop hypervisor for running virtual machines on Linux or Windows PCs.
Workstation 16 Pro improves on the industry defining technology with DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 3D Accelerated graphics support, a new dark mode user interface, support for Windows Hyper-V mode on Windows 10 version 2004 and greater hosts, a new CLI for supporting containers and Kubernetes clusters: ‘vctl,’ support for the latest Windows and Linux operating systems, and more.
General Host OS Requirements
VMware Workstation Pro and Player run on most 64-bit Windows or Linux host operating systems:
- Windows 10
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows 8
- Ubuntu
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- CentOS
- Oracle Linux
- openSUSE
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
