How to create new Virtual Machine (VMWare) on OSX?

Question

Is there any free product that I can use to create new VMWare Windows virtual machine on OSX 10.6.2?

Is seems to me that there is no OSX version for VMWare Player.

Answer 1

No, there isn't any free version of VMware for OS X. You only get VMware Fusion, with a trial version though. This should give you time to set up the VM.

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You can always open existing vmdk VMware disk images with VirtualBox though. You can also use VirtualBox to create a VM in the default vdi format, and then use the provided tools to convert it to a VMware-compatible vmdk file.

Use something similar to the following command found in this tutorial:

VBoxManage clonehd source.vdi target.vmdk --format VMDK

Note that you should probably uninstall any VirtualBox-specific guest tools before you boot it up in VMware.

Answer 2

The only VMware product for OS X is Fusion, and that's commercial. It has a 30 day trial version though, so that might work if it's only about creation of the VM.