Just some perspective ...<p>There was a time when a specific version of vmware workstation (version 3.x from ... 2001 ?  2002 ?) had a nice, detailed recipe to get it running, under linux binary compat, on FreeBSD.<p>So you could run the Linux version of vmware workstation on FreeBSD.<p>The problem was, this recipe and set of hacks needed to make this work <i>only</i> worked with vmware 3, and after 2003 or 2004, vmware wouldn&#x27;t even sell it to you - you couldn&#x27;t even download it.<p>But I kept a copy and continued to very happily use vmware3 until 2009, on successively newer FreeBSD hosts.  No, it didn&#x27;t have graphics card support and I couldn&#x27;t plug in my USB flash drives, etc., but the basic value proposition was still there - run any guest OS I felt like.<p>My point is:  don&#x27;t trash your old install packages for (whatever version of vmware workstation you like) and keep your serial numbers - this is a piece of software that can continue providing very high value LONG after vmware abandons it.