Vmware player and Vmware WorkStation

[irpersian20]

Hello,
What is difference between Vmware player and Vmware WorkStation ?

 

[Nothinman]

Features and cost.

 

[Chapbass]

Theres several things that are different, mostly with some of the advanced features....what are you trying to accomplish?

 

[xSauronx]

Hello,
What is difference between Vmware player and Vmware WorkStation ?

workstation lets you take snapshots, for instance. it also costs money, while player is free. play is sufficient if you just want to test VMs to try a new OS or something.

http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/faqs.html

 

[Nothinman]

workstation lets you take snapshots, for instance. it also costs money, while player is free. play is sufficient if you just want to test VMs to try a new OS or something.

http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/faqs.html

You mean there are web pages which describe what each product does? Wow, what will they think of next?

 

[lopri]

haven't kept up with Player but my understanding is the biggest difference is that Workstation lets you create VMs while Player lets you run them?

 

[zebrax2]

haven't kept up with Player but my understanding is the biggest difference is that Workstation lets you create VMs while Player lets you run them?

I believe that not true anymore.

 

[Kaido]

1. You can use VMware Workstation for commercial use
2. VMware Workstation lets you do snapshots (especially Live snapshots while the VM is running)

There are some other features but those are the two big ones that pop out in my mind.

 

[Nothinman]

haven't kept up with Player but my understanding is the biggest difference is that Workstation lets you create VMs while Player lets you run them?

Player has been able to create VMs for quite some time now. According to Wikipedia it took VMware just over a year after the initial release before they fixed that.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Workstation is an absolute must if you're running a lot of virtual machines.

1) The cloning option will save you a ton of SSD space if you create linked clones. The saved SSD space could pretty much be subtracted from program cost, since SSDs are still pretty expensive. And creating a linked clone only takes like 15 seconds, as opposed to whatever time it takes to setup an entire OS.

2) The tabbed interface is great. Instead of a bunch of windows loaded, it keeps them very well organized inside of a single window.

3) The live windows are also great for monitoring many VMs at once. It's kind of like aero sneak peek, except all the VMs show live snapshots (and update about once a second) and can be made as large as 640x480 I think. And this doesn't seem to tax my system at all.

4) Remote connections. I don't think this can be done in player, but you can hook up to your VMs from pretty much anywhere. I guess if you were to offer some kind of VPS hosting, this could be of use.

For me, the $120 I spent on Workstation 9.0 (student discount for the win) was so very worth it. But if you're only running like 3-4 at most, then Player gets the job done.