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See also: Documentation site, Version history and build numbers
| NT4 | 2000 | XP | Vista | 7 | 8 | 8.1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SP3 | yes | |||||
| 2 | SP3 | yes | |||||
| 3 | SP3 | SP2 | SP1 | ||||
| 4 | SP6a | yes | yes | ||||
| 4.5 | SP6a | yes | yes | ||||
| 5 | yes | yes | |||||
| 5.5 | SP3 | yes | |||||
| 6 | SP3 | SP1 | yes | ||||
| 6.5 | SP4 | SP2 | yes | ||||
| 7 | SP2 | yes | yes | ||||
| 8 | yes | yes | yes | ||||
| 9 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| 10 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| 11 | yes | yes | yes | ||||
| 12 | yes | yes | yes | ||||
| 12.5 | yes | yes | yes | ||||
| 14 | yes | yes | yes | ||||
| 15 | yes | yes | |||||
| 15.5 | yes | yes | |||||
| 16 | yes | ||||||
| 17+ |
This page is about host OS support.
Since VMWare Workstation 8, host OS compatibility stopped being indicated in manuals. Instead, it was first migrated to the online "VMWare Compatibility Guide", before being migrated again to KB2129859, where service pack levels are not indicated.
KB2129859 is not trustworthy regarding sub-versions of Windows 10. Workstation 14 release notes state that "Creators Update" (1703) is newly supported as the host OS. KB2129859 says 1803 instead. 14.0 was released in September 2017. There's no way that it would have support for 1803, a then-future version. Wikipedia probably followed KB2129859, and thus is wrong.
1511 and 1607 aren't indicated in the table, but 12.5 release notes state that support was added for "Anniversary Update" (1607).
16.1 release notes state that support was added for 20H2.
16.2: "As a Host operating system, running VMware virtual machines on Windows 11 with Workstation works just as it did on top of the more recent versions of Windows 10."