VMware Workstation Reviews

By using a VMware player, I've significantly improved my desktop processing productivity. By having multiple VMs running in the background for testing software, running scripts, or doing other CPU intensive tasks, I can get a lot more accomplished without interfering with my programs running in the forefront on a PC or another VM.

The initial setup is quite easy, but can be daunting to someone unfamiliar with desktop computing environments.

Free, That's the most important thing about VMware player. It's available on both Windows and Linux. VMware used to only run a virtual machine / virtual appliance, but now we can create a new VM with VMware player. You can even redistribute VMware player with permission from VMware, it might be useful if you want to send demo of your product as virtual appliance to your client. We don't need dedicated machine to install VMware player, we can just use our desktop to run VMware player.

Not available on Mac OS, so the only virtualization solution from VMware for your Mac OS is VMware Fusion. Lack of some features that only available in VMware workstation or VMware Fusion such as Teams, multiple Snapshots, multiple Clones, and Virtual Rights Management. Compared to Virtualbox, VMware player is slightly heavier on resource usage than Virtualbox.

Simple free virtualization solution that you can depend on. A lot of virtual appliance on VMware virtual appliance marketplace.

It's a very good tool for testing labs on my own computer. This is only the use.

VMware Workstation is great for migrating and patching operating systems. 

My experience with Workstation is limited, so I don't know all the functionalities of this tool. Maybe Workstation could add some more compatibility with other vendors.

I used VMware Workstation in a testing lab two months ago, but it was only for internal testing. We only tried it out for about five days.

Workstation is stable and scalable. 

Workstation is easy to set up. It only took about 15 minutes. 

I rate VMware Workstation nine out of 10. It's a very good product. 

VM management - ability to very easily create and manage multiple VMs of various platforms. Portability and ease of saving and copying entire VMs from machine to machine.

As a systems admin, I use it to run multiple instances of systems on my host machine to get better usability and for testing new builds for our users as well as for server updates. 

It's been a struggle at times to keep drive shares and video drivers working across updates. So a bit of stability in those areas would be nice.

2 years

I've been hit with a few bugs and documented issues.Specifically with video not behaving for VM windows on multiple monitors. And shared printing from the host machine is very temperamental.

It always seems a bit steep to me on renewals, but it pairs very well with our existing vSphere architecture so it offers a few more benefits and ease of use.

I use Hyper-V for the same purposes but VMware Workstation performs well and scales down to our developers needs easily.

The primary use case of this product is to connect to my virtual interpreter of VMs and the like. In the event of an emergency, or if the user wants to deploy a VM on his own virtual system, Workstation can create a number of VMs in their own system, without having to connect back to the network. We deploy this solution for our clients and have around 15 customers that are using it. We are resellers of VMware Workstation.  

This product has a lot of good features and the basic one is for solving connection problems. Users can deploy the test machines or the VM machines on their own system and do the testing part. They can set up their own lab or own test set up on their system and do what they need.

I think that performance could be improved by making it more effective and less resource consuming. It's a little clunky. 

The solution is stable, we haven't had any issues.

This solution is scalable - you can install it on your system and run a number of VMs which connect back to the central data, so it's inter-connectable, connecting access to VPNs.

The initial setup of this product was straightforward. 

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

Our primary use case for VMware Workstation is testing. We also provide some online services on VMware ESXi. 

The feature I find the most valuable is the product's usability. I prefer it over the Oracle solution, especially APEX. 

VMwate Workstation's virtualization is great as well. 

The price should be reduced. 

Visio stencils must be made available for technical documentation.

I have been using this solution for five years. 

I haven't faced any inconveniences working with this solution. It is very easy to use. 

I haven't had a reason to contact technical support. We have not had any significant difficulties with the product. 

I recommend this product. 

VMware player is one of the free virtualization tools available in the market. It provides you a sandbox environment to install and play around with almost any Operating System. VMware has support for sharing folders between the guest operating system and the host operating system, which can be very easily configured using the drag and drop feature. Another remarkable feature seen only in VMware is that, you can easily copy and paste files/text etc from one VMware guest to another VMware guest, both running on top of a single host. This feature is generally not available on other Virtualization tools like Virtualbox. Specifically targeted for heavy users who basically need a reliable and a powerful virtual environment to test new software or try new operating systems. Supports multiple OS platforms like Windows, Linux, Macintosh etc.

VMware player does not allow to create snapshots of a guest system. You can use snapshots to store the current state of an operating system using and later can restore to the same state. VMware player has a very high memory footprint and requires a lot of memory for running multiple operating systems under a single host system.It is very limited in terms of the number of features supported e.g. it does not allow you to create new Virtual Operating System images.

VMware player is a very good alternative for those who want a stable and free virtualization platform that can be easily run in various Operating System platforms like Windows, Linux, Macintosh etc. Folder sharing between guest and host can be easily configured in VMware. Though creating a new virtual operating system is not allowed in VMware Player and you will have to upgrade to the commercial virtualization tool, known as VMWare WorkStation.