VMWare Player vs VMWare Workstation

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

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from http   www vmware com products player faqs html      How does VMware Player compare to VMware Workstation  VMware Player   enables you to quickly and easily create and run virtual machines    However  VMware Player lacks many powerful features  remote   connections to vSphere  drag and drop upload to vSphere  multiple   Snapshots and Clones  and much more    Not being able to revert snapshots it s a big no for me

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VMWare Player can be seen as a free  closed-source competitor to Virtualbox   Initially VMWare Player  up to version 2 5  was intended to operate on fixed virtual operating systems  e g  play back pre-created virtual disks    Many advanced features such as vsphere are probably not required by most users  and VMWare Player will provide the same core technologies and 3D acceleration as the ESX Workstation solution   From my experience VMWare Player 5 is faster than Virtualbox 4 2 RC3 and has better SMP performance  Both are great however  each with its own unique advantages  Both are somewhat lacking in 2D rendering performance   See the official FAQ  and a feature comparison table

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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

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re  VMware Workstation support for physical disks vs virtual disks   I run Player with the VM Disk files on their own dedicated fast hard drive  independent from the OS hard drive  This allows both the OS and Player to simultaneously independently read write to their own drives  the performance difference is noticeable  and a second WD Black or Raptor or SSD is cheap  Placing the VM disk file on a second drive also works with Microsoft Virtual PC

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One main reason we went with Workstation over Player at my job is because we need to run VMs that use a physical disk as their hard drive instead of a virtual disk   Workstation supports using physical disks while Player does not

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Workstation has some features that Player lacks  such as teams  groups of VMs connected by private LAN segments  and multi-level snapshot trees   It s aimed at power users and developers  they even have some hooks for using a debugger on the host to debug code in the VM  including kernel-level stuff    The core technology is the same  though

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