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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:

https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/13.6.1/24319021/universal/core/com.vmware.fusion.zip.tar

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

@aral So by now – sunk cost fallacy?

Not judging, I've been at similar places with FOSS tools, too.