How to Install VMware Workstation and Create a Virtual Machine on Your PC

                  Difference between VMware Workstation and Server

Most of the people doesn't know about the difference between VMware Server and VMware workstation. Here I am putting some basic differences. Hope it may help you.

1. Run As Service – this is a biggest difference between both. Server runs as a background service and Workstation runs as a standard desktop application. Workstation provides better interactive performance but Server is better suited for multi user server consolidation scenarios. It tends to make Workstation better development platform and Server a better production platform.
   
   
2. Multiple-user Access – Only one user can access Workstation at a time previously but now you can access both server and client in multi user mode. VMware VSphere Client can be used for this purpose.
   
   
3. Snapshots – It is a feature that lets you capture a point-in-time image of VM. You can use that image to roll the VM back to that captured state. The snapshot is not a complete copy of VM. It captures only the changes to the VM image. Both Workstation and Server support basic snapshots.
   
   
4. Multiple Snapshots – Server supports only a single snapshot while Workstation supports multiple snapshot as well as providing a snapshot manager that lets you easily view and manage the available snapshots.
   
   
5. VM Cloning – Its advanced feature supported by Workstation but not available in Server. It allows you quickly copy a VM. A snapshot requires the presence of the base image, but you can use the cloning feature to create a completely new and independent VM.
   
   
6. VM Teams – Another advanced feature that’s supported in Workstation but not in Server is VM Teams. It lets you manage multiple VMs as a group.
   
   
7. Host-guest drag-and-drop – It lets you drag objects from the desktop or Windows Explorer from the host to a guest VM. Workstation supports this feature while Server not.
   
   
8. VM movie capture – Workstation’s movie capture feature lets you record all of the activity in a VM and save it as an AVI file. Server doesn’t support movie capture.

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