We performed a comparison between KVM and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The initial setup was very easy."
"This solution is open source and easy to configure."
"The product is really good...One can get good performance because of kernel-based virtualization."
"The most valuable feature is hypervisor. I can host at the same time different operating systems in Linux Windows."
"Documentation and problem-solving troubleshooting are the most valuable features. Performance (when fine-tuned and with "special" HW) is awesome, equal to or more than other enterprise closed-source solutions."
"If you prefer command-line, there are all kinds of command-line options."
"Good screen and keyboard sharing feature."
"I have found KVM to be scalable."
"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."
"Technical support is very good."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"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."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"The product is really easy to use."
"The performance is good."
"KVM is very difficult to manage and run on daily operations."
"In KVM, snapshots and cloning are areas where there could be a little more sophistication, like VMware."
"I have previously used VMware and KVM is easier to use. However, they both have their strengths depending on their use cases. They are mostly equal. One of VMware's advantages is it has better support."
"We would like to have a software lifecycle solution included in this solution. We can handle the software needed for KVM, but also the software that we provide. A lifecycle component would be very beneficial."
"Lacks high availability across clusters as well as support for Apache CloudStack."
"Business continuity features need to be added."
"One thing that maybe could be improved is making it easier to scale. It needs to be more clear on how to scale the storage space for virtual machines."
"Monitoring and resolution could be improved."
"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."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"The solution can be expensive."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The product's integration capabilities are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
KVM is ranked 4th in Server Virtualization Software with 39 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. KVM is rated 8.0, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of KVM writes "Delivers good performance because of kernel-based virtualization". 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". KVM is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and Oracle VM, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, Proxmox VE and VMware Player.
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