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VMware Workstation Player Reviews & Product Details

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

- All features Required for a VM

- You can Link it with your VMware Enterprise environment

- Keep client machine resources consumption under control

- I use it everyday on my labs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

- Some Automations when deploying windows server could save time but it should be optional for those cases the person wants to check/do the whole process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Using my client Machine to create virtual environments

- Use it as a VMware vSphere Client

- Testing Environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VMware Workstation Player Overview

What is VMware Workstation Player?

VMware Workstation Player allows you to run a second, isolated operating system on a single PC. With many uses ranging from a personal educational tool, to a business tool for providing a simplified experience to run a corporate desktop on a BYO device, Workstation Player leverages the VMware vSphere hypervisor to provide a simple yet mature and stable, local virtualization solution.

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VMware Workstation Player allows you to run a second, isolated operating system on a single PC. With many uses ranging from a personal educational tool, to a business tool for providing a simplified experience to run a corporate desktop on a BYO device, Workstation Player leverages the VMware vSphere hypervisor to provide a simple yet mature and stable, local virtualization solution.


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Recent VMware Workstation Player Reviews

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Jose S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Pretty Robust L2 Hypervisor"
- All features Required for a VM - You can Link it with your VMware Enterprise environment - Keep client machine resources consumption under cont...
Abd El-Rahman S.
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Abd El-Rahman S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Review - Workstation Player"
The friendly app environment allows the creation of a VM in some seconds
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4.0 out of 5
"Setting up VMs easy as pie"
The ease of setting up a new virtual machine. The settings are easily accessible and changeable when first setting it up. Once the VM is setup, I a...
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Abd El-Rahman S.
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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

The friendly app environment allows the creation of a VM in some seconds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

The Colors of APP I think it would be great to be the same of ESXI Dashboard Colors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

The isolation of the network section so help me to create more than on the subnet that's very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

The ease of setting up a new virtual machine. The settings are easily accessible and changeable when first setting it up. Once the VM is setup, I am able to quickly change settings as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

Can lag in its performance for unknown reasons. I am unsure but VMware may use up more physical hardware than competitors when running virtual machines. Also find it allows VirtualBox networks to interfere with its settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

The need to setup a new virtual machine in a timely manner is important to me in the work that I do. I have also found it easy to set up virtual servers in a timely manner as well for testing new software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chandrakant S.
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Products used within VMware Desktop Hypervisor: VMware Workstation Pro, VMware Workstation Player
What do you like best about VMware Desktop Hypervisor?

You can use your physical desktop same in VMware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Desktop Hypervisor?

Nothing anything else. It's working good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Desktop Hypervisor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's working good, and I can use it for learning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhreeti Ranjan B.
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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

Its light version of virtual platfrom that allow to run multiple operating system on your PC or laptop .Its very very convenient because no need to reboot to switch between them .It is easier to use VMware Player than installing them directly to your PC, as it would take much longer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

Hardware configuration for different version of operating system installation is bit of difficult on this platform, MAC OS installation not support directly on it. If you have just a few VM available it's ok but keep in mind that you can't really regroup them. Using a naming convention is an easy way around the problem though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

YES Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

It’s very useful for me to tasting different type’s operating system performance before it install to real workstation. It also very helpful for running different application for tasting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

The making of the program is really amazing.The user interface is quite appealing,compatibility with many devices is another key feature here.

We use Vmware mainly to test apps before we can install them to our machines.

Once vmware tools are installed,you can use full screen and exclusive mode to make use the OS at full screen.At times one may even think the guest machine is the host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

vmware tools installation is usually a problem especially for unexperienced users.A tutorial should be included for as many os as possible.

Also,there are os that lack vmware tools like androidx86. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

I would recommend this software to users of all levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use vmware player to test operating system and programs before we can install them on a real machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

Workstation player is good if you want to run another operating system in your PC. It is very easy to deploy and set up virtual machines. Whether it is Linux or Windows, all are support by this software. This software allows me to test how apps are gonna run in different operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

No option to run multiple operating systems at the same time simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

It is free to use. If you want to run multiple operating systems at the same time you need to go for Workstation Pro . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to test how apps are gonna work in different operating systems. So within a single PC, I can run different operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

It is lightweight and uses less ram than the main workstation. It also comes with hardware configuration option so that the configuration of the virtual machine can be modified from the player itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

It sometimes faces problem like failure to system integration when used in Linux. No option for network editor. One has to open separately main workstation to access network editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

I mainly use for testing new Operating System before using them on the main computers. Moreover useful for running server to demonstrate students . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

It’s robustness and ease was to work is great.

We can just pause and close and resume work next time within minutes. It did not take much time when resuming. It provides great control for plugging external devices from the main machine and detects fast. Software installation is also fast and clean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

Once working in Workstation player, I have usually used it with various flavours of Ubuntu. It’s works like a charm. Sometime though, while you are working in the workstation, it will hang and won’t respond. The only option left is you have to kill the process from Task Manager, and with that you may loose your work too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

For me it does what it suppose to. So, which kind of fulllfiling the requirements which we do have from development perspective. It’s fast and easy to use at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have an workspace where I have to work and code in different environment.. like windows, Linux, qnx etc.. Worksation player provides the best means to accomplish that.

It’s fast, reliable and work like a charm. Though it still require some updates and work to be done to make it the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michal J. M.
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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

This tool is one of my favorites, to perform all kinds of tests, in different operating systems, you can create all kinds of systems and execute them in moments, this tool, virtually all types of operating systems, both mobile and desktop, something that I really like this tool, it is not only the number of operating systems that can be used, but also the versions of them, sometimes I need to perform tests with different applications, on old operating systems, and with Workstation, I can do it in minutes, with no need to install the system, on a normal hard drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

the virtualization of current operating systems, especially the new versions of mac, does not work very well, they are slow, the devices are not fully compatible, and it takes a long time to configure them, so that they can be used, more or less appropriate, the consumption of resources is exaggerated, for this type of systems, and can not be used as it should be, the same happens in the versions of modern operating systems, from android 7 onwards, there are many conflicts with the hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

Thanks to this tool, you can perform all kinds of tests with applications, in different operating systems, without having any risks, of operation in real equipment, you can perform all kinds of work in conventional operating systems, and it is not affected security, in no way, since everything is done in a virtual environment, where the main files, do not run any risk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

Workstation Player allows for me to run multiple VM's on my laptop. I enjoy having the option to take a snapshot if I mess up on my work. It gets better and more reliable with each update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

Can be slow or unresponsive on Mac OS very often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Workstation Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not many Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.