We performed a comparison between Parallels Desktop and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)."Parallels Desktop integrates seamlessly with macOS. It works better than VMware on Apple operating systems."
"I haven't faced any inconveniences working with this solution. It is very easy to use."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"It will not harm any of the computer settings to run a specific program. For example, if a program needs a specific security policy, we don't have to use the shared configuration. We have an individual copy of Windows installed on the virtual machine, so anybody can access that. It helps us a lot."
"The technical support is good."
"Technical support is very good."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated."
"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."
"The biggest challenge is compatibility between VMware and Parallels because the two systems are incompatible. It can be challenging if you are switching between Windows and Mac. I recommend sticking with one product because there isn't good compatibility between the different products."
"Installing VMware Workstation isn't so easy. It's highly complex compared to Windows. I rate it four out of 10 for ease of installation. Setting up a remote desktop only takes a minute or so, but the Workstation itself takes some time."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"The price should be reduced."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"The big issue that we've always had with VMware, was the disparity between what was presented for a Windows-based client and a Linux-based client. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows."
"VMware Workstation has some network limitations which could improve, it is not as flexible as VMware NSX. Additionally, it could support operating systems better. I only run some Linux versions and Windows at the moment but it would be nice to be able to take whatever operating system you want and run it."
"I would want to see features included that make deployment easier."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
Parallels Desktop is ranked 12th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 1 review while VMware Workstation is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 14 reviews. Parallels Desktop is rated 7.0, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Parallels Desktop writes "It integrates seamlessly with macOS, but it's not compatible with VMware ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workstation writes "Easy to use, powerful virtualization capabilities, and good performance". Parallels Desktop is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Player, NComputing vSpace, NVIDIA GRID and Oracle VDI, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Oracle VM.
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