VMware Workstation Player
VMware Workstation Player builds on the industry leading foundation of Workstation Pro, and delivers a streamlined user interface for creating and running operating systems and applications in a virtual machine.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Workstation Player has been pashed out now that 
VMware Workstation Pro is free for personal use: VMware makes Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro free for personal use
Features
- Container Virtualization
- Virtualization
VMware Workstation Player News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about VMware Workstation Pro
VMware makes Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro free for personal useIn a surprising move, VMware has made its VMware Workstation Pro and VMware Fusion Pro desktop hype...
- POX published news article about VMware Workstation Pro
Broadcom simplifies VMware product portfolio and ends sales of perpetual licensesBroadcom, following its recent acquisition of VMware, has announced a significant simplification of...
- POX published news article about VMware Workstation Pro
Broadcom completes $69 billion acquisition of VMware after China approvalBroadcom, a leading provider of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, has completed ...
Recent activities
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What is VMware Workstation Player?
VMware Workstation Player builds on the industry leading foundation of Workstation Pro, and delivers a streamlined user interface for creating and running operating systems and applications in a virtual machine.
The free version is available for non-commercial, personal and home use. We also encourage students and non-profit organizations to benefit from this offering.
Commercial organizations require paid licenses to use Workstation Player.
Need a more advanced virtualization solution? Check out Workstation Pro for Windows or Workstation Pro for Linux
VMware Workstation Player information
Developed by
VMware Licensing
Proprietary and Free Personal product.Alternatives
38 alternatives listedNews
4 news article related to VMware Workstation PlayerSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
On first run it forces the user to give their email address for promoting emails... ...so it's unfair, and more importantly, unpleasant.
[Edited by Venom88, December 07]
This gets installed automatically when you install VMware Workstation (???) However, if you run VMware Player, it cannot create new nor open existing virtual machines created using VMware. Cannot use this.
tried this after using virtual-box for a long time, but I removed on the very first day. got a mouse and keyboard problem and have to connect a USB device to activate them. weird. back to virtualbox
Comparing to
VirtualBox, VMWare has 3D driver, but worse IO capabilities. So VMWare has much faster UI, but messing up a lot with excessive IO activity. It also doesn't have scaling, making it less usable on high DPI displays.
QEMU (manager) is the only solution against EGPFault in Win87EM.dll with newer Intel-CPUs
QEMU Manager is the very good Windows GUI for QEMU. In difference to VirtualBox or VMware Player you can emulate several CPUs, which is necessary for old 16bit applications with EGPFault in Win87EM.dll with newer Intel-CPUs (from 2013 and later) in all other virtual machines except QEMU.
So only with QEMU (not with VMware or VirtualBox or Windows XP Mode) you can use and compile Delphi 1.6 programs, when you have a newer Host-CPU from Intel. Without QEMU you must buy another computer with an AMD-CPU, because VirtualBox or VMware Player cannot emulate various CPUs, as QEMU can.
Details see:
VMWare Player has been replaced by Player Pro, the original isn't available anymore.
[Edited by aaronfranke, October 28] The other guy is right, there is also a free version, they decided to split the product.
Now Is VMware Workstation Player, and It's free for personal use
I first installed Microsoft Virtual PC, but it didn't work on my computer.. Then I tried VirtualBox - and had the same problem.. VMware Player just worked first time - nice! A "like" from me!