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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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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...
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"Review - Workstation Player"
The friendly app environment allows the creation of a VM in some seconds
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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.

Joseph V.
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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

The product is free and powerful. It allows you to pass through VRam to your virtual machine in greater quantities then VirtualBox. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

It is limited by a license and you lose some features and support by using the free version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

Utilize the community for this product,as the free version does not get support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have used this to test for graphically intense applications inside a virtualized environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlos R.
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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

What I like most about this tool is how efficient and intuitive it is, with this tool you can virtualize any operating system with which you can play and tinker, and if you break something, you can return to the original state from when you started the machine, also highlight the ease of transferring files from the host machine to the virtual machine, just by doing the well-known copy and paste, or by dragging the file in question to the virtual machine window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

What I like least, perhaps, is that sometimes it can work smoothly with versions of operating systems, perhaps due to the assigned hardware or a bad configuration of it, but I must say that I have only had this problem on rare occasions and it is not widespread at all, quite the opposite, the default configuration is usually the most optimal configuration to achieve better performance in virtualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

I highly recommend this tool, plus you can get a completely free version if you are not going to use it commercially, which is a great advantage, in addition to what I have previously mentioned, its intuitive way of doing things and its compatibility with the vast majority, if not all, of the existing operating systems today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The main uses I usually give it are to install different operating systems that I use sporadically depending on the assigned work, which avoids having to partition the hard drive and also prevents possible data loss caused by the creation of such partitions. Additionally, with the advantage I mentioned earlier, you can take snapshots of the operating system at a given moment and at any time you can return to that state with a single click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

The flexibility in using all the operating systems I know, including Android and Linux, testing them before deploying or implementing them. Saving equipment, as I can install several on one, I can easily expand memory and disk without making many changes, I have the entire system backed up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

I have performed conversions from physical machines to virtual ones and they have not worked well for me, although a low percentage, but yes, I have had to redo the conversion process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

I 100% recommend the application for virtualizing workstations, which have applications that only work with versions of operating systems other than the one you use, and to avoid spending on another device, you set it up on the same one. Additionally, you already have them in a file and can set it up on another without problems, as if it were a backup or copy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

use applications that only run on XP, under Windows 10 operating system, and many firewall tests under Linux, and even set up one with Android. I can have more than one system on a single device, print server and Galac server in one, and if the disk lacks space, I can expand it without buying anything, restarts quickly, I can back it up completely and migrate it to another physical device without having to modify anything, just make adjustments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad U.
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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

The fact that you are able to quite quickly setup and run different operating systems at will is simply the best factor about this. Moreover, it has allowed for me to easily test bespoke software across many different platforms and operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

I would have to say that there are not many factors i dislike about this software, however, sometimes it can become somewhat confusing when fiddling with the settings. The settings are quite a bit advanced for a non-technical person who is using it for the first time and could really be quite confusing for them. Moreover, sometimes when changing the wrong setting, it can cause many other problems within the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

Definitely works as required and meets the purpose in which it has been required for. Moreover, it is very flexible and can easily be adjusted to ones needs by simply tinkering with the settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It allows for testing products such as bespoke software across many different operating systems with ease via one machine. This is very useful as software generally is required for to be available on many different operating systems and this allows for us to test these software without much financial costs as we do not have to purchase any extra equipment such as new computers simply to run another operating system and we can easily use this software to run all of these operating systems on one computer without much of a hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

VMWare workstation player is a good tool that lets you create multiple virtual machines with decent resources. Current versions of Workstation has some improvements over previous versions, and its certainly the most versatile, powerful, and multi-featured virtualization tool available. It lets you run all your virtual machines in the background where you can allocate different resources to each individual machine. Recently the IPv6 protocol is operational for NAT interconnections between a guest OS and host machine. Rebooting or shutting down that host will suspend all running instances, while this does not impact the reboot/shutdown of the host OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

The player opens just one VM at a time ,and it is also expensive unless for students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

If you are willing to pay for a good quality visualization tool then Workstation is the best solution. It runs smoothly on various platforms and has customization interface. I recommend using it to have more independence in terms of application use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am a Windows operating system user, however I frequency need to access software that only run on different OS platforms. Also I do scientific computing on virtual machines so Workstation is the best feature-rich tool that lets me build my own customizable OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Julien K.
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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

Really easy when you just want to use a virtual machine that you already have for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

There is no version for Mac OSX user, so you need to be a Windows or Linux user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

I really recommend you to use it at work. WMWare for me is the Apple of virtualisation. They have a really good user interface. The customer service at VMWare is always good. I never have to use it for Workstation player but for other products. The price is really inexpensive so you can use it ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having virtualisation is really important for IT jobs and task, it allows us to solve problems. We all need it one day in Computer Science. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

Working in workstation player is almost as fast as in the native OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

Sometimes the copy function doesn't work properly when copying things between the virtual machine and the host OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

best software for running virtual machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can run outdated software in outdated OS and know I can use it in the future on new computers as long as I can use workstation player. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

very good tool for testing on different operating systems with a very intuitive graphical interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

At the moment, I haven't found anything. I'm starting and I'm really enjoying it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

For my part, the loading time seems a bit high. Maybe it's my machine. Otherwise, everything is perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use it to test different operating systems without needing to go to other company computers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

I like how VMware Workstation just works. Unlike other VM Applications VMware just works. For example transferring files from Desktop Workstation to the VM is seemless and in general it runs well also. The UI is also the best ever and no other VM applications match it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

There isn't very much that I dislike. Maybe the only thing I don't like is that occasionally when you close a VM it just freezes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

It just works Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am solving networking and installation problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.