VMware Workstation Player Pros and Cons

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.