VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

Yes, but just try to download it from them. You have to make an account, agree to all kinds of garbage, and then you still might be stuck in "authorization" like my account is. They removed the auto-update functionality (even the notification!) from the app, so you have to manually go through their horrendous website to download updates.

It's 10x easier to just search reddit or internet archive for a link to the .dmg.

If your name or email address has non-alphanumeric characters, their entire authorization/EULA flow breaks silently. I had to use an old email to get it to work.

> They removed the auto-update functionality (even the notification!) from the app

Oh, they didn’t want to deal with the “token” bullshit they added to the VMware download site that the updates come from. That’s why.

https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/03/24/downloa...

> They removed the auto-update functionality (even the notification!) from the app, so you have to manually go through their horrendous website to download updates.

That's not true. The auto-update functionality is still there, it just doesn't find anything. (At least this is the case for Workstation; I assume it's similar for Fusion)

Wireshark it and watch the 403 kick back from the server (because of the new token policy).