Comments on: So everyone is going nuts for free VMware Workstation

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 23 May 2024 07:25:12 +0000

In reply to Roy. I have to run multiple instances of player. Which I'm almost fine with, it's just annoying that closing a VM closes the player entirely, it'd be nice if it returned to the selection.

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 23 May 2024 03:41:51 +0000

In reply to raijinkai. really? my Player 12 still able to run multiple VMs in same time.

By: ender

ender — Sat, 18 May 2024 22:35:43 +0000

In reply to Random. Yeah, Player's been included with Pro for a long time now – just run the Workstation Pro to get the full-featured version.

By: Random

Random — Sat, 18 May 2024 22:15:10 +0000

In reply to ender. This includes a version of vmware player with it, though I haven't tried it. I'm running Workstation Pro (free version) and I'm running a vista and a server 2022 vm at the same time.

By: ender

ender — Sat, 18 May 2024 21:23:23 +0000

In reply to raijinkai. That's the limitation of Workstation Player, which is now discontinued. Workstation Pro doesn't have these limits – you can run as many VMs as your host will let you.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:40:53 +0000

In reply to Trap. nextstep,netware,mach,old bsd, os2 so many things. also doom runs absolutely terrible. new qemu is just trash.

By: Trap

Trap — Fri, 17 May 2024 13:47:37 +0000

In reply to neozeed. could you explain? What compatibility?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 17 May 2024 11:00:40 +0000

In reply to Zir Blazer. Qemu lost me when they broke all the great compatiblity of the 0.8/9/10 days instead opting for being a vehicle for KVM and running Linux on Linux. Kind of a shame old QEMU is so vastly superior.

By: Zir Blazer

Zir Blazer — Fri, 17 May 2024 08:20:19 +0000

Since I always pushed for QEMU or Xen and was sad as nearly everyone else went VMware (The only true killer feature was the more flexible PCI Passthrough, since average users use what most other people they know already use), seeing Broadcom nuking VMware reputation is like a dream scenario for me. Lets see if they can get some marketshare boost out of this.

By: Random

Random — Fri, 17 May 2024 02:47:26 +0000

The choices at this point seem to be IBM/Redhat (does most of the work on qemu), Oracle (Virtualbox), Broadcom (VMWare) and Microsoft (Hyper-v). Talk about depressing!

Thank god for kissing cousin 86Box! (by ‘kissing cousin’ I’m referring to the fect it’s not a virtualizor, but an emulator)