vmware-ws-downloader

Description

Download VMware Workstation Pro without the need for an account. Specify what is needed and this simple .NET8.0 based CLI application will download it for you easily. 

External Libraries used by this project

• HtmlAgilityPack

Setup

• To be able to build this program, download the dotnet, version 8.0 framework
• Download the repository
• Unzip, fireup a console and go to the projects root directory
• Build the downloader by using build.ps1 in the tools directory

.\tools\build.ps1 .\vmware-downloader 

• Parse to: vmware-downloader\vmware-downloader\bin\Release\net8.0 and execute vmware-downloader.exe

Download Process

• The first section asks for the VMware workstation version
• In this case we want the latest version: 17.6.2

Note: Everything will be configured by index

VMWare Workstation Downloader

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0) 12.0.0
1) 12.0.1
2) 12.1.0
3) 12.1.1
...
50) 17.5.1
51) 17.5.2
52) 17.6.0
53) 17.6.1
54) 17.6.2

Version> 54

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0) 24409262

Nr> 0

• In the next step select the target OS

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0) linux
1) windows

OS> 1

• Select core to show the available files

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0) VMware-workstation-17.6.2-24409262.exe.tar
1) metadata.xml.gz

Package> 0

• Now the setup is completed and a prompt will show up asking to start the download
• Simply type y and the download will start

Start the download for VMware-workstation-17.6.2-24409262.exe.tar?
n/N = back to start
y/Y = download

> y

Starting download..

File saved to: ..\vmware-downloader\vmware-downloader\bin\Release\net8.0\output\VMware-workstation-17.6.2-24409262.exe.tar

Press any key to continue..

• This process can be repeated by simply pressing enter

Move to the output directory, unpack the installer and all is ready to install VMware Workstation on the target machine