VMWare Player vs VMWare Workstation

vmware vmware-workstation vmware-player
user496949 picture user496949 · Nov 13, 2010 · Viewed 188.6k times · Source

Can anyone give me a simple comparison of those two? It is hard to get the idea from their web site.

Answer

rjsteward picture rjsteward · Nov 13, 2010

VM Player runs a virtual instance, but can't create the vm. [Edit: Now it can.] Workstation allows for the creation and administration of virtual machines. If you have a second machine, you can create the vm on one and run it with the player the other machine. I bought Workstation and I use it setup testing vms that the player runs. Hope this explains it for you.

Edit: According to the FAQ:

VMware Workstation is much more advanced and comes with powerful features including snapshots, cloning, remote connections to vSphere, sharing VMs, advanced Virtual Machines settings and much more. Workstation is designed to be used by technical professionals such as developers, quality assurance engineers, systems engineers, IT administrators, technical support representatives, trainers, etc.

Related questions

Clone option not visible in Vmware player

I am new to this vmware player and am working on version 'workstation 9.0 virtual machine'. Now I have made a virtual machine and I want to clone it. But when I right click on the machine which I created there …

Read More
How to acess (ping) VmWare Machine from host

I have installed windows 7 on VM in my Windows 8 pc. I am not able to ping my windows 7 machine (VM) from my Host (Windows 8). I am using NAT network adapter. I tried using Bridged but it crashes my host (win 8). …

Read More
How to enable copy paste from between host machine and virtual machine in vmware, virtual machine is ubuntu

I am trying to copy and paste from my pc to the vm but i cant. I also enable copy and paste but i still can't copy and paste from my pc to the vm. My pc runs windows 8.1 my …

Read More