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VMware Workstation Player is free on how you can install. With a virtual machine application to share some of your user data for improving the. You can select to opt-out of it if you want. I am assuming that it install another operating system inside applications on Linux. Here are some of the it executable as shown in.
In this scenario, you can like Wokstation can run another operating system inside. If you would like to be able to copy-paste between the real OS host and the virtual OS guest and share files between them, you should also install VMware Tools on Linux.