VMware Workstation 10, VMware Player 6 Regular/Plus, VMware Fusion 6 Regular/Pro: what to choose? (via: VMware Workstation 10 released Sept. 4 2013, but you might be fine with the free VMware Player 6 Plus | TinkerTry IT @ home)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27
There is an interesting post by TinkerTry IT @ home | VMware Workstation 10 released Sept. 4 2013, but you might be fine with the free VMware Player 6 Plus that helped me making up my decision what to buy.
Basically you have these products on the non-server side of things:
- VMware Player 6 Free
- VMware Player 6 Plus
- VMware Fusion 6 (non-Professional)
- VMware Fusion 6 Professional
- VMware Workstation 10
(Note: you can find many downloads through Google search for site:www.vmware.com/go)
I bought these:
- VMware Fusion 6
- VMware Workstation 10
My reasoning:
- I’m using both a Mac, a Windows and a VMware ESXi home-lab as hosts.
- For Mac, I need VMware Fusion or VMware Fusion Professional
- For Windows, I can use VMware Player Free, VMware Player Plus or VMware Workstation.
- VMware Workstation 10 integrates with ESXi (VMware Player 6 regular/plus don’t)
- VMware Fusion Professional includes VMware Player 6 Plus which I don’t need
Note that since Windows 8, it also contains a bare-metail hypervisor: Hyper-V which is the same as available for Windows Server (see Bare-metal hypervisor for non-server use?).
Too bad they don’t have Mac support (:
–jeroen
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