Operations Manager at a agriculture with 1-10 employees
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2024-07-11T17:08:00Z
Jul 11, 2024
One improvement is mouse emulation. Some people in the office want to use a five—or seven-button mouse like they're used to at home, but they can't with the workstation setup. They want the flexibility to use the same type of mouse at work, but it's not supported.
When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player. You'll see it on your web front, and you'll be unable to change the resolution. You can't manage any of them without clicking on them.
Information Technology Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2023-07-26T15:25:35Z
Jul 26, 2023
VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources. VMware has cloud solutions, but something more can be done at the desktop level.
Lv 2 Windows Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
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2022-06-27T16:25:07Z
Jun 27, 2022
VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround. It would be an improvement if there were some kind of mixture between the licenses to avoid this situation. I would also like VMware Player to include built-in interactive help.
VMware Workstation is part of a suite of robust Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) tools or Desktop Hypervisors that allows users to run Kubernetes clusters, containers, and Virtual Machines (VMs). Users have the option to choose between VMware Workstation Pro or VMware Workstation Player to ensure that they get the most out of their VMware Workstation experience.
Workstation Player is best used as a command line or single graphical operation. It works very well for running different...
One improvement is mouse emulation. Some people in the office want to use a five—or seven-button mouse like they're used to at home, but they can't with the workstation setup. They want the flexibility to use the same type of mouse at work, but it's not supported.
The tool can improve network storage technology.
When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player. You'll see it on your web front, and you'll be unable to change the resolution. You can't manage any of them without clicking on them.
VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources. VMware has cloud solutions, but something more can be done at the desktop level.
The solution's networking features need enhancement.
VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround. It would be an improvement if there were some kind of mixture between the licenses to avoid this situation. I would also like VMware Player to include built-in interactive help.