In case you didn’t hear, VMware has been sold to Broadcom. Unfortunately, this has come with a couple of site issues during the migration. As of now 2024-05-28, there’s no way to “publically” download the VMware Workstation product. I’ll show you how to download it the alternative way.
In addition, VMware Workstation Pro is now rebranded as a free product for consumers and paid for enterprise users.
- Navigate here: https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/.
- Access the newest version.
- Navigate to your OS directory,
windowsorlinux. - Navigate to
core. - Download the
VMware-workstation-*.exe.tarfile.