Beginning of November 2024, VMware (by Broadcom) announced VMware Fusion and Workstation are Now Free for All Users.
Omnissa Customer Connect doesn’t seem to have more information or the download link, so the question for most of us then is … where can you download it from?
This CDS repository seems to be a consistent download location. Currently version 17.6.1 is available for download as a .tar file. Which itself then contains only one file which is the main setup:
VMware-workstation-17.6.1-24319023.exe.
I don’t know who made that one up; file sizes of the two hardly differ. I don’t see any purpose doing this.