News Summary

• VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 is a new version of Broadcom's free virtualisation software.
• It supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS as a host OS and a guest OS (a virtual machine inside the software) Fedora 43 and 44, SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and openSUS 16.0 are similarly supported as both guest and host OSes, while FreeBSD 15.0 is supported as a guest only.
• All versions (macOS, Windows and Linux) can connect to remote ARM-based ESXi hosts to “manage VMs on remote ARM servers directly from VMware Workstation or Fusion on any supported platform”