topic Re: Workstation 11.x licensing in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286650#M136740 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Actually, if you carefully read the first KB article you linked, Workstation 11.x requires a 64-bit host OS.&nbsp; Workstation 10.x (and Player 6.x) is the latest to support 32-bit OS's.&nbsp; So you will need to download (and downgrade your license) to 10.x, not 11.x.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:00:38 GMT RDPetruska 2020-03-17T12:00:38Z Workstation 11.x licensing https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286643#M136733 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>I need to run Workstation on a Windows 7 32bit host machine, and as far as I understand 11.x was the last Version that supported this OS.</P><P></P><P> Workstation versjon 7.0 til 11.0: <A href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/kb.vmware.com/s/article/2088579__;!!CYQycLDRcg!8l8-jSE4jRxwDL4I862rtWwwqazd52elLc54J8g-8Z1rESeq0_5wIg6Sa-jAcc6xyIYA$">https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2088579</A></P><P>Workstation versjon 12.x til 15.x: <A href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/kb.vmware.com/s/article/2129859__;!!CYQycLDRcg!8l8-jSE4jRxwDL4I862rtWwwqazd52elLc54J8g-8Z1rESeq0_5wIg6Sa-jAcTCa-jzK$">https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2129859</A></P><P></P><P>I can download it from here:</P><P><A href="https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info?slug=desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation/11_0#product_downloads" title="https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info?slug=desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation/11_0#product_downloads">Download VMware Workstation 11.0</A> </P><P></P><P>This brings me to my actual question: how to License it?</P><P>Can I buy a Workstation 15.5 pro License key (for Windows and linux) and it will work on this release?</P><P>Is it at all possible to buy it any more?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:53:11 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286643#M136733 HenrikOlerud 2020-03-17T08:53:11Z Re: Workstation 11.x licensing https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286644#M136734 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi <B>HenrikOlerud</B>​</P><P>Check</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="vmware workstation.png"><img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18291i1C77BE32812DF370/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="vmware workstation.png" alt="vmware workstation.png" /></span></P><P><A href="https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software&amp;details=1&amp;partner=110&amp;releases=495&amp;operatingSystems=51&amp;productNames=3&amp;osBits=32&amp;osFamily=4&amp;page=1&amp;display_interval=10&amp;sortColumn=Partner&amp;sortOrder=Asc&amp;testConfig=16" title="https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software&amp;details=1&amp;partner=110&amp;releases=495&amp;operatingSystems=51&amp;productNames=3&amp;osBits=32&amp;osFamily=4&amp;page=1&amp;display_interval=10&amp;sortColumn=Partner&amp;sortOrder=Asc&amp;testConfig=16">VMware Compatibility Guide - Guest/Host Search</A> </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:11:40 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286644#M136734 asajm 2020-03-17T09:11:40Z Re: Workstation 11.x licensing https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286645#M136735 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>However, it is always possible to downgrade:</P><P><A href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2006975" title="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2006975">VMware Knowledge Base</A></P><P></P><P></P><P>ARomeo</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:55:46 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286645#M136735 Alex_Romeo 2020-03-17T09:55:46Z Re: Workstation 11.x licensing https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286646#M136736 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P><SPAN class="j-post-author"><STRONG><A _jive_internal="true" data-avatarid="-1" data-userid="3070821" data-username="asajm" href="https://communities.vmware.com/people/asajm" name="&amp;amp;lpos=apps_scodevmw : 112">asajm</A></STRONG></SPAN></P><P>Your answer is for "Guest". from the question it seems that he has to install it as "Host":</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_0.png"><img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18298i5FEF939C4C643865/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_0.png" alt="pastedImage_0.png" /></span></P><P></P><P>ARomeo</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:11:48 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286646#M136736 Alex_Romeo 2020-03-17T10:11:48Z Re: Workstation 11.x licensing https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286647#M136737 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>hi. I'm looking for win7 32bit as host-OS, not guest-OS.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:32:02 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286647#M136737 HenrikOlerud 2020-03-17T10:32:02Z Re: Workstation 11.x licensing https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286648#M136738 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks.</P><P></P><P>That's a usefull suggestion. </P><P></P><P>I Guess I could buy 15.5 key and then downgrade it to 11.x ?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:35:27 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286648#M136738 HenrikOlerud 2020-03-17T10:35:27Z Re: Workstation 11.x licensing https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286649#M136739 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P><SPAN class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><SPAN title="">Yes, exactly!</SPAN></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><SPAN title="">ARomeo</SPAN></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:04:41 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286649#M136739 Alex_Romeo 2020-03-17T11:04:41Z Re: Workstation 11.x licensing https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286650#M136740 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Actually, if you carefully read the first KB article you linked, Workstation 11.x requires a 64-bit host OS.&nbsp; Workstation 10.x (and Player 6.x) is the latest to support 32-bit OS's.&nbsp; So you will need to download (and downgrade your license) to 10.x, not 11.x.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:00:38 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286650#M136740 RDPetruska 2020-03-17T12:00:38Z Re: Workstation 11.x licensing https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286651#M136741 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you, that was easy to miss!</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:28:45 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-11-x-licensing/m-p/2286651#M136741 HenrikOlerud 2020-03-17T12:28:45Z