VMware, Inc. is an American publicly traded software company from California, USA. It provides cloud computing and virtualization software and services.[6] It was one of the first commercially successful companies to virtualize the x86 architecture.[7]

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, while its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware ESXi, is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.