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Broadcom: Hey, guess what, we made VMware Fusion free. Enjoy, everyone!
Also Broadcom: …
So you can follow these instructions to get closer to a download but if you think you’re actually going to be able to download it… oh, cricket, you have so much more to learn…
https://www.mikeroysoft.com/post/download-fusion-ws/
What a shitshow, Broadcom.
At this point, if your time is worth anything, it’s actually more economical to pay for Parallels than to try and download VMWare Fusion for “free”.
Right, so if you want to download the latest VMWare Fusion Pro for macOS (v13.6.1) (free for personal use), here’s how you can do it with zero hassle from their software update site:
No need to create an account, etc.
(Don’t you love *enterprise-level* security?)
If you want to find some other download, just do a web search for the file name you see on the support site (see previous post).
@aral Any reason you're not just going for qemu+libvirt?
This kinda shit is why I'd take a proper FOSS solution over """enterprise""" software any day of the week – even if the UX is often objectively worse. :F
@phryk Ease of use? (Can you taste the irony?) :)
@aral So by now – sunk cost fallacy?
Not judging, I've been at similar places with FOSS tools, too. 
@phryk I've had none with QEMU/libvirt besides the lack of GPU acceleration, while I kept having issues on VMware. (Linux host on Wayland, Windows 11 guest)
And yeah nah, Apple has its own framework for virtualisation now AFAIK. Everything goes through that, including new versions of VMware Fusion.
(BSD is something I haven't messed with tho. Besides Mac ofc.)
@ann3nova Ah, nice, for all platforms; thanks :)
@aral The shitshow gets worse — you get a .zip.tar file. BetterZip won't even extract that in one go — you have to untar it from the command line and then double-click the .zip file. And *then* the app's in a subfolder, and it dumps a manifest.plist at top level 
@aral Honestly, what did you expect from a company who has the worst propietary drivers on Linux for Wi-Fi & Bluetooth cards!?
@aral it's broadcom. I don't want it, even for free.
@aral Completely unrelated, but that looks like a fun distorted conic-gradient().
@anatudor I wonder if the designer at Apple had a web design background (it’s just the default wallpaper from the latest OS) :)