Linux is one of the fully supported platforms for VMware. This means it can be either a host or a guest OS. VMware Workstation is one of the leading desktop virtualization solutions in the HW virtualization space.
VMware Workstation for Linux
Please follow this link to download VMware Workstation for Linux: Linux – VMware Workstation.
UPDATE 02/2019: VMware Workstation 15 Pro is the current version available for both Windows and Linux.
As of this moment, the latest VMware Workstation is 6.0.2, with the following support for Linux OS:
VMware Linux – experimental support in VMware Workstation:
- 32-bit and 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 as host and guest operating systems
- 32-bit and 64-bit openSUSE Linux 10.3 as host and guest operating systems
- 32-bit and 64-bit Turbolinux 10 Server as a guest operating system
VMware Linux – full support in VMware Workstation:
- 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 7.04 as host and guest operating systems
- 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 6.10 as host and guest operating systems
- 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 as host and guest operating systems
- 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 (formerly called 4.0 Update 5) as host and guest operating systems
- 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.2 as a guest operating system
- 32-bit and 64-bit Mandriva Linux 2007 as host and guest operating systems
VMware ESX server
ESX server is loosely based on Linux as well, so once you install the server, you should be able to browse around your Linux filesystem.
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