How to Load an ISO Image Into VMware. VMware includes support for ISO images, which represent CDs or DVDs. When you load an ISO image into a VMware program, the virtual machine sees the ISO image ...

VMware Workstation Pro recently became free, but the installer download is hidden away. Here's how to get it and install it.

This means jumping through lots of extra hoops to get Windows installed in VMware Fusion in the first place, since you can't simply download an ISO file as you can for the x86 version of Windows.