VMWARE PLAYER - is Free version no longer available

Hi there

Seems there will soon be a lot of defectors to Virtual Box, XEN, KVM, or HYPER-V soon. If you look at the VMWARE site there is now only mention of VMPLAYER PLUS (note PLUS or PRO in Software titles ALWAYS means PAY) and it's an astonishing 90 GBP / 110 EUR / 120 USD !!! + 20% VAT on top of that.

There doesn't seem to be ANY link to the FREE vmplayer product and even the vmplayer PLUS doesn't mention that it WAS free for home users.

Can't find any mention on the site that it's FREE any more.

If I'm looking for the FREE product I'm NOT going to click BUY NOW am I. !!!!

Is this "Monetisation" rearing its ugly head again.

I think this Backdoor method is still available - but for how long ???

Backdoor method link still up though - but for how long?).

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads


Cheers
jimbo

Hi there
Thanks

Seems though more and more sites are "hiding" or deliberately obfuscating any links to their FREE product -- If I hadn't of known about the Free player the main VMWARE site would have left me thinking that it was now a PAID FOR only product.

I'm not sure what "Extra" features though the "Plus" version has -- the standard version works very nicely -- for Snapshots and running VM's in the background I still use Workstation - but when I retire (not long now !!) I won't be able to use the Work supplied VMware workstation license I have.

Anyway thanks for the explanation.

Cheers
jimbo

I'm constantly amazed that VMware Player is free, it's just the most amazing bit of software when you consider the complexity of what it has to do and how well it does it - especially when running on SSD.