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VMware Updates Linux Patches For Running VMware Workstation Atop KVM

Written by Michael Larabel in Virtualization on 23 April 2025 at 06:05 AM EDT. 7 Comments
One of the biggest surprises of last year was finding out that VMware has been working on shifting VMware Workstation from proprietary code to building atop the upstream KVM code within the Linux kernel. Following the initial patches from last October, an updated patch series was sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list yesterday for working on this transition.

Zack Rusin of VMware/Broadcom sent out the second version of the Linux kernel patches that enable running VMware Workstation on Linux using the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

Rusin sums up the ongoing work with the v2 patch series cover letter:

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