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VMWare workstation pro is a Software program that would let you install different operating systems, be it a Windows or Linux virtually on your physical machine. Because you never know what could go wrong. VMware Workstation Pro is a desktop virtualization solution from VMware.When you are a network engineer or a developer, you may want to test your skills in a virtual environment rather than playing with your machine or production environment. It is a great alternative to VirtualBox from Oracle. VMware Workstation Pro is available for Linux and Windows. At the time of this writing, the latest version of VMware Workstation Pro is 15.5.6.
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In this article, I am going to show you how to install VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.6 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. #Download ubuntu for vmware workstation install#

If you want to use VMware Workstation Pro 15 on your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine, you must enable hardware virtualization VT-x/VT-d (for Intel processors) or AMD-v (for AMD processors) from the BIOS of your computer. Downloading VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.6: Otherwise, your VMware Workstation Pro virtual machines (VMs) will run very slow, and you won’t get the desired performance. In this section, I am going to show you how to download the VMware Workstation Pro Linux installer.įirst, visit the official web page of VMware Workstation Pro. Once the page loads, click on the Download Now button from the Workstation 15.5 Pro for Linux section, as marked in the screenshot below. Your browser should prompt you to save the VMware Workstation Pro installer binary file. Installing VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.6: Your browser should start downloading the VMware Workstation Pro installer binary file. Once VMware Workstation Pro 15 installer binary is downloaded, the installer file should be available in the ~/Downloads directory of your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine. VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.6 is being installed. The installation is 99% complete at this point. VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.6 is installed. Now, you have to do some initial configuration. To do that, run VMware Workstation Pro 15 from the Application Menu of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.Ĭlick on I accept the terms in the license agreement to accept the VMware End User License Agreement for VMware Workstation and click on Next.Ĭlick on I accept the terms in the license agreement to accept the VMware End User License Agreement for VMware OVF Tool component for Linux and click on Next.
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If you want VMware Workstation Pro to periodically check for a newer version of VMware Workstation Pro and notify you if an update is available, select Yes. #Download ubuntu for vmware workstation update# VMware’s customer experience program will automatically collect data necessary to improve VMware products. If you want to join the VMware’s customer experience improvement program (CEIP), then select Yes. VMware Workstation Pro 15 has support for Shared virtual machines (VMs). You can share a VMware Workstation Pro virtual machine running on your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine and access it from VMware Workstation Pro 15 running on another computer (i.e. To access shared VMs, you need to setup a user account. Type in the username that you want to use to connect to VMware Workstation Pro for accessing shared VMs. By default, it should be your login username.

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NOTE: The password should be the password of your login username by default. If you’ve set another username for shared VMs, then the password should be the password of that user.īy default, shared VMs will be saved in the /var/lib/vmware/Shared VMs directory.

If you want to save your shared VMs in some other directory, you can change it from here. I will show you how to change it from the VMware Workstation Pro Preferences in a later section of this article. #Download ubuntu for vmware workstation how to# So, I am going to leave it as it is for now.īy default, VMware Workstation Pro uses the port 443 to allow access to the VMware Workstation Pro VMs remotely from another instance of VMware Workstation Pro running on another computer.

The default port number 443 is okay unless the port 443 is busy running another process.
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If you have bought VMware Workstation Pro 15 license, then you can enter the license key for VMware Workstation Pro 15 here.
