VMware Product Download Index

A web app that indexes VMware product downloads by fetching XML metadata from Broadcom/VMware update servers, with Wayback Machine as a fallback source.

Features

• 10 VMware products — Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro, Player, Remote Console (all platforms)
• 3-source fallback chain — Broadcom → VMware → Wayback Machine
• Verbose status logging — See which sources were tried and how long each took
• Download links — Wayback Machine download URLs and CDN curl commands with checksums
• Dark VMware-themed UI — Tailwind CSS dark theme

How It Works

1. Select a product from the dropdown
2. The app fetches the product XML from Broadcom's update server, falling back to VMware's server, then to the Wayback Machine
3. Select a version/build from the populated list
4. Click "Show Downloadable Files" to fetch and decompress the metadata XML
5. Download files via Wayback Machine links or use the CDN curl commands

Version Qualifiers

• Core — Main application installer
• Packages — Additional components (VMware Tools ISOs, guest OS drivers, etc.)
• Windows / Linux — Host operating system the build targets

Tech Stack

• SvelteKit (Svelte 5, runes mode)
• Tailwind CSS v4
• Cloudflare Workers deployment
• fast-xml-parser for XML parsing
• pako for gzip decompression

Development

# Install dependencies
deno install

# Start dev server
deno task dev

# Type check
deno task check

# Run tests
deno task test:unit

# Build for production
deno task build

# Deploy to Cloudflare Workers
deno task deploy

Project Structure

src/
├── lib/
│   ├── components/       # Svelte 5 UI components
│   ├── server/           # Server-only modules (cache, XML parser, fetcher)
│   ├── types.ts          # Shared TypeScript interfaces
│   └── products.ts       # Product config (shared client/server)
├── routes/
│   ├── api/products/     # REST API endpoints
│   ├── +layout.svelte    # App shell (header, footer, dark theme)
│   └── +page.svelte      # Main page orchestrator
├── app.css               # Tailwind config + theme variables
└── app.html              # HTML shell

Data Sources

Source	URL Base	Timeout
Broadcom	softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.com/cds/vmw-desktop/	3s
VMware	softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/	3s
Wayback Machine	web.archive.org/web/{timestamp}id_/	10s

The app tries each source in order. Currently, the live Broadcom/VMware servers return stripped XML (only info-only entries), so the Wayback Machine is the effective primary source.

License

Not affiliated with VMware or Broadcom.