VMware Workstation Stability
VMware Workstation has good stability.
View full review »The stability of the solution is great. I have not had any customers with issues, apart from the day-zero incidents, which happened to everyone, whether you are Microsoft, VMware, or anyone else. Other than that, we have not experienced any major core stability issues.
View full review »I rate VMware Workstation's stability a ten out of ten.
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March 2024
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I haven't had any stability issues. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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Dimitar Kavrakov
CEO at iSolute Ltd
I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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Walter Gygli
Owner at Secacon Gygli Engineering LLC
VMware Workstation is stable.
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Toni Lindberg
CEO at Virtual Consultants Sverige AB
VMware Workstation is highly stable. I have been running a VM for a year and a half and nothing has happened with it. It is running very well.
I rate the stability of VMware Workstation a ten out of ten,
View full review »VMware Workstation's performance is excellent.
View full review »We haven't encountered any technical difficulties with VMware Workstation so far.
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Munetsi Matambanadzo
System Engineer at ZESA Holdings
I rate the product’s stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »VMware Workstation is a stable solution.
On a scale from one to ten, I would give stability a ten.
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reviewer1754271
Chief Technical Officer at a construction company with 51-200 employees
They're very stable. VMware is remarkable in this regard. Given how well it works, I think that it's insane that people are doing it any other way.
I ran a miner in Windows directly, and it would occupy all of the cores and slow down the computer and cause a ton of problems. Interestingly, it wouldn't yield as much as this virtualized Linux system would in Windows, on the same machine.
I'm not sure how it makes sense that a virtualized machine inside Windows works better than something where you eliminate the middle man and you just run it in Windows, but that's exactly the case.
When you run these virtualized systems, they're running on bare iron, pretty much. They may be in Windows, and Windows might be using other stuff, but they're going to the CPU and saying, "This one, this one, this one, this one is mine," and it just runs.
This means that you get all of the performance advantages of Linux, and none of the overhead of Microsoft spying on you. This is why I think that building every computer out there as a baseline virtualized machine makes a lot more sense. You just press a button on your keyboard, and there's your Windows. Press another one, there's your Mac. Press another one, there's your Linux. Have them all be able to swap files back and forth, and everybody could be having the best of all possible worlds for whatever kind of system they want. Ultimately, Linux would grow and win out.
However, as it is, you give them a bunch of money and they tend to develop theirs a little faster. Linux may be the best system in terms of efficiencies because it's monetized to do so. All of those companies with all Linux servers know that by cutting away the fat, they make the thing work better and they earn more money with the hardware they've spent so much money on. That's the financial incentive.
The tool’s stability is good.
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Dan Tica
Senior Micro Solutions Engineer at Mobexpert
There are some concerns regarding the stability of this solution. We have a device that seems to be under some pressure and two others that are working very well.
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reviewer941238
Engineering Applications Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution handles pretty well. It did seem to function a little bit better than I had expected.
View full review »The stability of the solution depends on the solution's license. If you opt for a license purchased from VMware Workstation, then it remains very stable. The unlicensed version of the solution is not very suitable or stable.
The stability is good.
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Ashvit Khandare
Cloud Engineer, Content Writer at Planet Flora
I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.
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VBVenkat
Networking engineer at Hical Technologies Private Limited
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
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Kristjan Janezic
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The stability is fine.
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Tristan Camilleri
System Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is stable.
View full review »I rate VMware Workstation ten out of ten for stability.
View full review »It is not a very stable solution. I rate the stability a six out of ten.
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Karthik Sjp
Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
VMware Workstation is a stable solution when compared to all the other hypervisors in the market. Snapshots, rollback and forth etc works smoothly. However, I do not have extended experience with the other solutions
View full review »I have encountered stability issues with the virtual networks and have had run into issue with copying or moving VMs. Usually these all work great 9 out of 10 times, but when it doesn't work right it become very time consuming to fix and troubleshoot.
View full review »VMware Workstation is a stable solution.
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Updesh Yadav
Senior network engineer at GoTech
It is quite a stable solution.
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reviewer139530
Systems and Security Administrator at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
I have had a few issues prior to update1 - but I am unsure if this is due to my platform or if it is a VMware related issue. I also noticed that it uses a lot of RAM when running multiple instances of Windows VMs. Update - I have 32GB RAM now and it works flawlessly. I have been working in this newer environment for several months and I couldn't be more pleased.
View full review »The product is very stable. I rate its stability an eight out of ten.
View full review »It is a stable product.
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reviewer1803714
Customer experience engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
VMware Workstation is highly reliable and stable.
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reviewer903963
Pre-sales engineer
Workstation is stable and scalable.
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Darshil Sanghvi
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is stable, we haven't had any issues.
View full review »I've been hit with a few bugs and documented issues.Specifically with video not behaving for VM windows on multiple monitors. And shared printing from the host machine is very temperamental.
View full review »In v6, it was a 32bit environment with a maximum memory of 4Gb RAM. Therefore, this required a high level of swap out of RAM to disk in order to provide sufficient memory space to run VMs, this occasionally caused system crashes. Since v8 this has not been an issue.
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VMware Workstation
March 2024
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