Fling

VMware Flings is now available in Free Downloads of Broadcom Support Portal (BSP)

05.19.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

📰Minor update coming for Flings next month, you can see the full announcement at https://t.co/Cc4c5ASd2Y

tl;dr - Fling downloads will be re-homed to Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) under Free Downloads, some cleanup will also be done, Flings Community will be for Discussion/QA pic.twitter.com/CV5ifbsZaN

— William Lam (@lamw) April 22, 2025

As shared back in April, the VMware Fling downloads will be migrating to the Free Downloads section within the Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) and this transition has just completed over the weekend. Going forward, any net new or updated VMware Flings will be published on the BSP.

To access the VMware Flings downloads or any other free or entitled software, you will need to register for a free BSP account, which does support personal email addresses (e.g. gmail, yahoo, etc).

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New ESXi-Arm Fling based on 8.0 Update 3b

10.31.2024 by William Lam // 34 Comments

I am very happy to share that the ESXi-Arm team has just released a brand new version of the popular ESXi-Arm Fling (v2.0), which is now based on ESXi 8.x codebase and specifically using the latest ESXi-x86 8.0 Update 3b release! This is a very exciting update, as the original release of the ESXi-Arm Fling (released 4 years ago this month) has been based on the ESXi 7.x codebase for its initial port from x86 to Arm.

After delivering the initial productization of ESXi-Arm with the release of vSphere Distributed Service Engine (vDSE), formally known as Project Monterey, the ESXi-Arm team has been hard at work to converge the ESXi-Arm codebase, which is also used powers our vDSE technology!

In addition to porting the ESXi-Arm codebase from 7.x to 8.x, the team continues to support a large variety of Arm-based systems, which you can see from the list below: