First login into your server as a root or non-root user with sudo permissions and run the following command to keep your system up-to-date. Step 1: Downloading VMware Workstation 16 Proġ. Make sure your system and its kernel are up to date.Before you begin this guide, you will need the root account OR non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your system (Physical host).Make sure you have a license key to activate the product OR you will work in the evaluation mode “ the same features but with ONLY 30 day period” after the evaluation mode period ends YOU MUST enter a license key to activate the product.Unfortunately, the 16th edition doesn’t support 32-bit processors may be due to the features improvements that need the higher level of processor BUT VMware didn’t talk about specific reasons.

Make sure that your system is 64-bit “ VMware Doesn’t provide 32-bit edition” and its virtualization feature is enabled.

There are also some other features that you will discover by practice and make hands-on labs.

Automatically Suspend Shared Virtual Machines Upon Host Shutdown.

Scan for Virtual Machines in local folders as well as on network shared storage and USB drives.

With improved OVF/OVA support for testing and experimentation within Workstation.Support for ESXi Host Power Operations such as Shutdown, Restart and Enter/Exit Maintenance Mode.Dark Mode support for optimized user experience.Vulkan Render Support for Linux Workstation.Support for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 in the Guest.New Guest operating system support for RHEL 8.2, Debian 10.5, Fedora 32, CentOS 8.2, SLE 15 SP2 GA, FreeBSD 11.4, and ESXi 7.0.Container and Kubernetes Support – Build, run, pull and push container images using the vctl command-line tool.This tutorial also discusses some common issues during the installation process. VMware Workstation 16 Pro is popular software that allows you to run multiple different virtual machines on physical hosts using the concept of Type II of hypervisors (Hosted Hypervisors). This tutorial will show you how to install VMware Workstation 16 Pro on RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint.

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