--- product_id: 78084796 title: "Workstation 5.0 for Windows" brand: "vmware" price: "£60.90" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 4 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/78084796-workstation-5-0-for-windows store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Desktop virtualization Secure sharing Streamlined development Workstation 5.0 for Windows **Brand:** vmware **Price:** £60.90 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🚀 Elevate Your Development Game! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Workstation 5.0 for Windows by vmware - **How much does it cost?** £60.90 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/78084796-workstation-5-0-for-windows) ## Best For - vmware enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted vmware brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Maximize Resources:** Convert physical infrastructure into efficient virtual systems. - • **Test with Confidence:** Run software in isolated environments before deployment. - • **Transform Your Workflow:** Elevate your productivity with seamless virtualization. - • **Collaborate Effortlessly:** Share development setups securely with your team. - • **Future-Proof Your Development:** Stay ahead with cutting-edge virtualization technology. ## Overview Workstation 5.0 for Windows is a powerful desktop virtualization software designed specifically for software developers and IT professionals. It streamlines the software development lifecycle by allowing users to create, test, and deploy applications in secure virtual environments, enhancing productivity and collaboration. ## Description Product Description VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and IT professionals who want to streamline software development, testing and deployment in their enterprise. VMware Workstation allows users to run multiple x86-based operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and NetWare, and their applications simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines — no hard drive partitioning or rebooting required. From the Manufacturer VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and IT professionals who want to streamline software development, testing, and deployment in their enterprise. VMware Workstation allows users to run multiple x86-based operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and NetWare, and their applications simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines--no hard-drive partitioning or rebooting required. Shipping for more than six years and winner of more than a dozen major product awards, VMware Workstation improves productivity and flexibility, and reduces costs so dramatically that it has become an indispensable tool for software development and IT professionals worldwide. How Is VMware Workstation Used? The powerful and flexible virtualization properties and features of VMware Workstation enable a wide range of solutions for a diverse set of users. Individuals and organizations use VMware Workstation to: Streamline software development and testing operations. Create multiple development and testing environments as virtual machines on a single PC and use them to test "real world" multi-tier configurations, complex networks, and multiple operating systems and applications all on a single machine. Improve team collaboration. The portability and hardware-independent properties of virtual machines, coupled with new features in VMware Workstation, lets users easily share development environments and pre-packaged testing configurations without risk, and also facilitates collaboration between development and QA. Enhance the productivity of IT professionals. Allows system administrators and other enterprise IT professionals to test software, including new applications, application updates, and operating system patches, in virtual machines prior to deployment on physical PCs or servers in a production environment. IT help desk departments can create and reference a virtual library of end-user configurations to help them resolve problems more quickly. Introduce virtual infrastructure to your enterprise. Virtual machines created in Workstation can be deployed to the other desktop and server virtualization platforms offered by VMware. Introducing VMware Workstation virtualization to the desktop is an ideal first step to transforming your physical IT infrastructure into virtual infrastructure. How Does VMware Workstation Work? VMware Workstation works by creating fully isolated, secure virtual machines that encapsulate an operating system and its applications. The VMware virtualization layer maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machine's resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, and I/O devices, and is the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine. VMware Workstation installs onto the host operating system and provides broad hardware support by inheriting device support from the host. ## Features - Desktop virtualization software for software developers and IT professionals - Streamline software development, testing, and deployment - Enhances productivity; test software in virtual machines prior to deployment - Safely share development environments and pre-packaged testing configurations - Transform physical IT infrastructure into virtual infrastructure ## Images ![Workstation 5.0 for Windows - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/11S8R3Kdz4L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Platform For Display** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars The Future of Computing with Multiple OSs at the Same Time is Here! (Can also boot Mac OSX on a PC!!!) *by O***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2006* Now we can truly virtualize as many Operating Systems (OSs) as we like on a modern rig, all with full networking capabilities that run anywhere between 100% and 75% of the speed as if the OS was actually hard installed on the system. However when we are talking systems with above 512 MB of RAM and better than 2.0 Ghz, you are never going to go with a single OS machine or a multiboot/dualboot when you have seen VMware in action. I have booted Windows XP (you can boot Win 3.1, Win 2K also if you want), Linux Slackware (one of the unsupported Linux distros that works and I don't see why all Linux versions should work), FreeBSD6 (6 is unsupported but works), Solaris 10 (no problem) and I have personally seen the Apple MAC OS X Tiger running on it, but running OSx86 is illegal. However I have seen it on VMware on a PC. You can load all this on a notebook and have all of these OSs running on it at the same time, even full screen mode and it just looks so unreal, the kind of stuff that moves your soul when you see OSx86 with networking running on a PC Laptop. The fact you can toggle between the OSs without needing to boot only one OS and the presence of OSx86 makes this an absolute must. A few things need to be noted though. Sometimes you should use VIRTUAL IDE Virtual HDDs instead of SCCIs in VMware virtual hardware setup. In VMWARE BIOS (F2) you sometimes must change large disk access mode to OTHER rather than DOS, especially for Linux systems. If you can't get proper screen resolutions sizes, install VMware Tools from VMware, right click on OSs tab, "Install VMware Tools" and this mounts the tools inside the OSs in the /cdrom drive. Copy it and install it and you should have all the resolutions you need. Anyway what are you waiting for? This is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars It is ok to run PC virtualization *by H***U on Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2020* It works Ok for the PC window virtualization, but up layer window OS application running is very slow. It must need more hardware resources to support to run faster. ### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars product key had been used previously *by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2014* The product key was sold to me and found out that the key had been used previously by another user --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/78084796-workstation-5-0-for-windows](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/78084796-workstation-5-0-for-windows) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*