Fusion Player has the same features as Fusion 11.5.x ‘standard’ and more. I’m excited to announce: VMware Fusion 12 Player.Īnd, in alignment with Workstation Player, Fusion will be available with a Free for Personal Use license!įusion 12 Player replaces Fusion 11.5 ‘standard’, and follows the same pricing and licensing model as Workstation Player, meaning that it is both free for Personal Use, but requires a license for Commercial Use. There are a lot of features and changes to talk about, so let’s dive right in! Don’t want to wait? We’re still collecting feedback from our Fusion and Workstation Tech Previews!) (Fusion 12 and Workstation 16 will be available in VMware’s Fiscal Q3 which ends October 30th. The aim is to provide developers a reliable setup for establishing a rapid ‘inner loop’ pipeline of development to build modern applications, or even when working on the codebase of Kubernetes itself. (Want just the Workstation angle? Check out the Workstation 16 Blog announcement!) Quick Overviewīuilding on over 20 years of local virtualization excellence, the latest releases of our favorite virtualization tools deliver some amazing new capabilities for IT Admins, for Developers, and for everyone else.Įarlier this year we introduced ‘vctl’ to push, pull, build and run OCI containers using Fusion’s award winning hypervisor stack, but now developers with Fusion or Workstation can use ‘vctl’ to deploy Kubernetes clusters with newly added support for ‘ kind’ – a tool for creating developer-defined local clusters using containers as “nodes.” It is our pleasure and privilege to announce the upcoming VMware Desktop Hypervisor product lines for 2020: VMware Fusion 12, and VMware Workstation 16.

Announcing: VMware Fusion 12 and Workstation 16

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