We compared VMware Player and VMware Workstation based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Overall, VMware Player is praised for its ease of use, efficient resource utilization, and reliable performance, while VMware Workstation is valued for its seamless virtual machine creation, snapshot functionality, and extensive compatibility with various operating systems. Both products offer unique features tailored to meet different virtualization needs.
Features: VMware Player is praised for its ease of use, seamless virtual machine integration, extensive OS compatibility, efficient resource utilization, and reliable performance. In contrast, VMware Workstation offers seamless VM creation, useful snapshot functionality, and extensive OS compatibility while also being efficient and reliable.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for VMware Player is unknown, as no information is available. Similarly, the setup cost for VMware Workstation is also unknown, as specific information is not provided. The differences in setup cost between the two products cannot be determined based on the available data., The ROI for VMware Player cannot be summarized due to insufficient data. Similarly, the ROI for VMware Workstation is also not provided in the available reviews.
Room for Improvement: VMware Player has areas for improvement based on feedback, while there is no feedback available for improvement on VMware Workstation.
Deployment and customer support: The user feedback for VMware Player does not provide any information or quotes to use as a data source for summarizing the reviews. The review quotes for VMware Workstation also do not contain any information that would allow us to evaluate the duration required for deployment, setup, or implementation., Customer service and support for VMware Player is difficult to assess due to the lack of available information or feedback. Similarly, there is no information or opinions given regarding the customer service and support for VMware Workstation.
The summary above is based on 32 interviews we conducted recently with VMware Player and VMware Workstation users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"The product is really easy to use."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"The tool’s GUI is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"VMware Workstation allows multiple operating systems in the same physical machine."
"I like that it's easy to use. It's easy to deploy virtual machines. You have to insert your ISO and the image of your OS and configure it. They provide a step-by-step guide, and you have to follow it. In the end, you have to start the machine, and that's all you have to do. I liked that they synchronized the mouse, keyboard, and everything. When you finish the installation, it directly links to your laptop. This makes copying and pasting things from my laptop inside the virtual machine easy."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"We can undo some changes using the snapshot feature."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The price of VMware Workstation is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"The solution should provide a guide on its installation."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"Its price could be better."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. VMware Player is rated 8.6, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of VMware Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, VMware Fusion and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. See our VMware Player vs. VMware Workstation report.
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