Still — for a vintage lab , a retro homelab , or that one legacy medical device VM that refuses to move? This ISO is gold.

👉 It’s about keeping air-gapped labs alive, legacy production running, or building a home cluster that doesn’t phone home every 5 minutes.

Drop a comment or DM — I’ve got the official checksums saved from before VMware cleaned house. Would you like the actual official VMware download link guidance (where to log in) or just the creative text as-is?