VMware Workstation is a line of Desktop Hypervisor products that run virtual machines. In other words, they are Desktop Apps Workstation Pro, and Workstation Player that let users run virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes clusters on a Windows or Linux PC.

No need to create a partition for each operating system because VMware Workstation uses your computer file system to create files that map to a virtual machine disk drives VMware Workstation allows you to run the other operating system in a virtual machine on your host operating system if you already have another operating system installed on your computer with dual boot you can run both operating systems simultaneously and switch between them with a single mouse click, eliminating the need for dual booting.

VMware Workstation product line consists of two products workstation Pro and workstation Player collectively they are referred to as VMware Workstation and when there are differences, they are called out.

VMware Workstation products work by using special functions in modern 64-bit x86 CPUs to create fully isolated, secure virtual machines that encapsulate an operating system and its applications. The VMware virtualization layer maps physical hardware resources to a virtual machine’s ‘virtual’ 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.