Running VMware on Windows 10 (not the other way around)

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Windows 10 is currently downloading on one of my machines. That particular machine has VMware Player 6.0.7 installed on it, running several virtual machines (which are important to me). I couldn't find anything related to installing and running VMware Player on Windows 10; every article I found mentioned setting up a Windows 10 machine on VMP (which I know from experience it works).

Since no explicit material (that I found) addressed the support or lack thereof for VMware Player on Windows 10, I tend to believe that there won't be any problems.

Are there any problems with installing/running VMware Player on Windows 10? Has someone already installed Windows 10 and could run VMP without any problems?

Andrei V

Posted 2015-08-01T06:17:34.140

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Seeing as you say these virtual machines are important to you, you should probably have checked this before installing Windows 10. – joeqwerty – 2015-08-01T06:58:34.590

Sure, point taken. As I wrote, Windows 10 was downloading, not installing. I've postponed the actual information until I get to do a complete backup of the data. If it would have been installed, I would have already known the answer... – None – 2015-08-01T07:03:05.920

VMWare Player 7 supports Windows 10 because Workstation 11 supports it – Ramhound – 2015-08-08T12:06:40.563

Do you need this exact version of VMWare Player for any reasons? I'm using the most current version of it on a Windows 10 host. No Problems so far. All my VMs work as usual. – Metalzwerg – 2015-08-08T12:50:49.227

@Robin no, that was just the installed version at the moment. I have since then upgraded to 7.1.2. Currently still on Windows 7, due to lack of proper drivers. – Andrei V – 2015-08-08T12:53:29.183

Answers

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VMware Player 7, which is still free for non-commercial use, has been tested and is working on Windows 10. Download link for VMware Player 7 can be found here: https://download3.vmware.com/software/player/file/VMware-player-7.1.2-2780323.exe

Anthony Bartolo

Posted 2015-08-01T06:17:34.140

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