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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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Broadcom
Year Founded
1991
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San Jose, CA
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59,531 Twitter followers
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61,034 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ: CA
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+1 800 225-5224
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$27,500,000,000
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Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial, and enterprise software. Our solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity, and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

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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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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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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

The size of the installable is very small and it’s quick and easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

Working from non domain networks gives issues a lot of times. You cannot connect to the company network from your vm even when you have vpn installed on your host machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can maintain different windows versions and my company specific software versions on the sane machine in different VMs. It gives me the flexibility to switch between the projects easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

1) Its industry standard desktop virtualization technology that helps even a tablet can be running with Windows or Linux.

2) It provides the best features of VMWare like completely isolated secure virtual machines for an encapsulated operating system and its application.

3)New operating systems can be installed as virtual machines just like a separate window in your desktop PC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

1) You’ll need a unique image for each OS and there is no advanced floating feature available.

2) PC OS and Hardware side problems can affect the top virtualisation as it uses the base OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

Please make a good due diligence before switching into and do few test run and customise the images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's being used to provide managed desktops in a global level, while guests, educators clients, and kiosks use it for interfering with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

I prefer the workstation pro version, but in case you need to install in a secondary machine and you don't need to build a new vmdk , or you just need to play a vmware virtual machine, this is the version right for you.

Every new release is more reliable, this program is a must have for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

I don't find nothing I dislike, it is easy to use, it is fast, and you can share many moitor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

Perfect for run VMWare 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 all my virtual machine, stop them, and contine next vith very fast performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

That allows installing other operating systems and running them as virtual machines within an independent window Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

for the moment, from what I am using, there is nothing that I dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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At the moment, I am liking it a lot, so I still can't know if something else can be implemented. I like everything, interface, etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I conduct tests according to the operating system that interests me to provide a solution to the client in question. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

The fact that most every vendor has a working Virtual Machine or Virtual appliance that works great with VMware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

The way the networking is done, it can be cumbersome but ultimately it works Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

use it over Virtual Box 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 demo or showcase certain servers in a controlled environment, which ultimately results in cost savings to us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

La sencillez de uso, su potencia y estabilidad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

La verdad, me gusta todo, pero si tengo que destacar algo es la traducción al español. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

Facilidad de uso, potencia, versatilidad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Pruebas de productos en varios sistemas diferentes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

It will run any virtual machine without costing an arm and a leg. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

There's really nothing that I dislike with the player. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware Workstation Player:

Use it wisely and without fear! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The need to test out OS previews before the general release but without spending money on a full VMWare suite Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

Robusto, sencillo, estable tal y como acostrumbra vmware en sus productos Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

Consume bastantes recursos lo que puede hacer que tu equipo se cuelgue si no es lo suficientemente potente Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Vitualización de sistemas linux para prubas ates de producción Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VMware Workstation Player?

I really liked that it was easy to install my virtual machine onto VMware and it runs very smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Workstation Player?

There was nothing really that I disliked but in the older versions some virtual machines weren't compatible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This helped create a practice environment for us to work on problems without compromising our actually machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.