vmware workstation licenses.

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So at work we have licenses for all the VMware products, we use Horizon, Vsphere, and Workstation for doing some sandboxing testing.

I wanted to get a workstation license for home on my pc to play around with and do some training.

So, $99 from VMware. Bunch of sellers on ebay have the latest version 11 for $17.99, or $19.99, with instant delivery.

I’m trying to figure out what the deal is with this, and if it is legit.

All have great feedback, and I bought a copy from a dude from Greece of all places.

An hour later, he sent me a link to download from the VMWARE site, and a key that activated right away. I paid $17.99.

There has got to be some kind of a scam going on, what are they doing? Is someone just spitting out a key from a keygen?

I try to buy software if I can for home use, and steer away from stolen software or keys, etc.

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Bulk license keys? Big corps pay nowhere near the retail price

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Yeah I thought about that too. We have keys for all the microsoft products, and all the VMware products at work, but nobody at these software companies is seeing that someone is reselling the keys and they are activating all over the whole world?

I would never use one of my enterprise keys on any of my home computers. Let alone resell them on ebay lol.

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My previous company I worked for had 250,000 employees all around the world and god knows how many workstations. All of the IT was in India. Pretty sure somewhere like that you could get away with it.

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What you bought is most certainly not legit, it could be a key from a corporate account or it could be one from a keygen.

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Just google VMware workstation license then copy and paste lol

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Torrentz, be sure to compare against their doctored checksum so you know you’re getting all the good bits.

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I didn’t say use Torrentz :slight_smile:

Download VMware workstation from Vmware.com google VMware workstation serial number lol

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I may not be understanding this quite right, but why do you need to buy a license to work from home?

I’m on a blade (cloud 2.0) and can remotely log in from my home computer compared to the wyse box sitting at my desk, just install the vmware view client software on my home computer and log in to my machine.

Ignore my post if I’m completely off in what you’re trying to do lol.

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VMWare view client isn’t VMware Workstation

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He’s trying to do testing/lab stuff at home I imagine. The View client is a different VMWare product all together. He’s looking to host virtual machines, you are connecting into a virtual machine.

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Correct, I am doing lab stuff for MCSE while working at home, this way I can play around with server 2012 and not break anything.

We do not have a VDI environment yet, but I just did have a meeting at the Dell Campus in Round Rock with Dell Wyse and VMware, so we are leaning that way in the future.

Our clients use Dell Optiplex desktops for the most part and Latitude notebooks.

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Are you trying to pool together various hardware boxes to run VMs on or are you just looking for the ability to spin up multiple virtual machines on one system? If the latter, just install VirtualBox. It is free and does exactly what you want to do. I did a similar thing to start learning MCSE: Communications

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Virtual box suckssssss

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Hey, take it easy. I use Vbox to create my reference images at work, it’s free and does snapshots. I need snapshots for a variety of reasons, most notably snapping a pre-sysprep snapshot. You’re a VMWare Fusion user IIRC, right? What do you hate about Vbox?

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Looks like I’m not the only one that constantly has issues with it…they break something with every. single. update.

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It’s a novelty I would never count on it for actual business.

I use Fusion all day with 0 issues

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Calm down Snowden. Its a free platform built to spin up simple images for simple use. It isn’t meant to run a enterprise VMware cluster. Red Hat wins there.

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I’m talking about day to day VMs that I use for business purposes on my laptop.

Virtualbox is a joke carry on

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I have had 0 issues with Vbox (other than those I’ve created). I’ll ask again, what issues are you guys having. :wink: Not like I’m saying you’re wrong or lying, just asking for more specifics because maybe others are not using it the way you’re using it.