Reviews of VMware Workstation for Windows

1. 
   TomasF

   Reviewing 7.0.1 Build 227600 (Feb 4, 2010)

   Some people here seem to be reviewing the wrong product, they're comparing Virtualbox on premises where VMware Player would probably fit their requirements better. It's good to hear the Virtualbox developers are attentive to bug reports, because with the number of bugs I've seen in their "cutting edge" (you know, old from VMware) features like Snapshots and such, they need to be.
   
   Workstation is an essential tool in my virtualization ecosystem, with native support for the dominant enterprise virtualization solution, debugging support and advanced api, powerful networking config manager. at work I spend my entire day in assorted VMs connected to different VLANs and with different OSes.
   Now that it supports vSphere as a guest too, it's a powerful test environment.
2. 
   Artem Tashkinov

   Reviewing 7.0.1 Build 227600 (Feb 2, 2010)

   2rog:
   
   > "TWO stars for bloat, lackluster performance, poor bug sanitization over multiple releases, a seriously overblown price and an abrasive and invasive download procedure."
   
   Seriously, someone's PC is absolutely wrecked because VMWare is the fastest and the best virtualization around.
3. 
   roj

   Reviewing 7.0.1 Build 227600 (Feb 1, 2010)

   Just today I installed this product and compared it against my now standard VirtualBox installation. I'm a former VMWare user that switched to VirtualBox somewhere around the 6.5 release of VMWare after a long and frustrating history with that product, beginning with the 6.0 release. I wanted to see if anything had changed.
   
   I wasn't at all surprised to learn that nothing had.
   
   VirtualBox is less resource intensive, considerably faster, supports the majority of important features and is a MUCH better value. Why? Because their dev team actually listens to issues and fixes them in a timely fashion.
   
   This company is resting on its laurels (like many another pioneer) regarding the workstation version. When a small company can come from behind and offer a comprehensive feature set that touches all the important bases For Free, that's a death knell in that market segment to another company that is bogged down in its own complexity.
   
   Is VirtualBox less idiot proof? Not by much and that gap closes significantly with each new point (not major - point) release. Right about now they're almost level AND they can import vmdk files. I use VirtualBox every day with a Novell client, Lotus Notes, MS Office, even Windows MovieMaker. I have it running XP, Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu. It multitasks smoothly and gives no grief with the keyboard buffer if network performance is slow - that requires a kludge in VMWare. In short, this product, unless you have extremely specific requirements that only it can handle (and believe me, they must be very esoteric), is a complete waste of money.
   
   The download process is still arduous, cumbersome and invasive. VMWare, if I want to download your product you are NOT entitled to any of my or my company's information - get that through your thick heads.
   
   TWO stars for bloat, lackluster performance, poor bug sanitization over multiple releases, a seriously overblown price and an abrasive and invasive download procedure.
   
   Get VirtualBox instead. I did and I'm not going back.
4. 
   sparskter

   Reviewing 7.0 Build 203739 (Oct 28, 2009)

   The best one period.
   I bought a license myself yesterday;
   
   I am using linux as host and winxp as guest
   1- VMWare supports IMGBURN inside guest winxp;
   2- VMWare supports AcTiveSync (I own a HTC win mobile );
   3- VMWare best feature at all: SNAPHOTS. You can take any snapshot and travel between them in any order you like.
   
   VMWare is an effort of thousands people (engineers)
   EXCELLENT work!
   
   OBS: NOW YOU HAVE TO BUY ONLY ONE LICENSE! THAT IS IT: YOU BUY A LICENSE FOR VMWARE WORKSTATION AND USE IT EITHER AS WINDOWS OR LINUX HOST.
   
   OBS: DO NOT RATE 1 STATING "OLD VERSION"!!! TTHAT IS NOT VMWARE FAULT!! IT'SS BETANEWS!!!
5. 
   Bart Welson

   Reviewing 6.5.2 Build 156735 (Jun 3, 2009)

   OLD version !

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