&gt; Another possibility is VMWare might be defocusing their traditional virtualization and this is the first of an all-in shift to containers because that&#x27;s a growth market at the moment.<p>Supporting container workloads doesn&#x27;t need to come at the expense of &quot;traditional&quot; virtualization, e.g. see the work being done with vSphere Integrated Containers[1] or AppCatalyst[2], particularly since most (all?) containers ran on cloud providers are running in a VM.<p>N.B. I work at VMware, but as an engineer in a completely unrelated BU I have absolutely no insight into Workstation&#x2F;Fusion strategy<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.vmware.com&#x2F;vsphere&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;vsphere-integrated-containers-technology-walkthrough.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.vmware.com&#x2F;vsphere&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;vsphere-integrated-c...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getappcatalyst.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getappcatalyst.com&#x2F;</a>