We're just using this for demonstration purposes and not actually using it for commercial use, so we can go ahead and continue by clicking on create a new virtual machine. And you can enter your license or choose for non-commercial use. After restarting, I can go ahead and double click on the VMware Workstation Player. Otherwise, just go ahead and click, finish and restart as prompted. And I'll click finish, if you have a license key, you can choose that. You may get prompted to reboot the computer either during the installation or afterwards, so just be prepared. And if you want to have shortcuts installed you can do that. Updates are always a good idea due to security issues. If you'd like to join the VMware customer experience and check for product updates. It's a good idea to install the enhanced keyboard driver and also make sure the add VMware Workstation console tools and click next. (computer chimes) Installation wizard comes up and I'll choose to accept the license agreement and run through the installation. VMware Player has completed and now I'll run the installation. And although the workstation is not going to be in production use, you're going to find that it's a great training tool for sysadmins who want to break into the business. VMware makes an enterprise product called ESXi.
You need to make sure that virtualization is turned on in your UEFI or BIOS. I'm going to download and save the application, then run the installation. I'm in the VMware website where I can download for free the Workstation 16 Player. Many organizations are using either Windows Hyper-V or VMware to run their virtual machines.