How to choose the right VMware type-2 hypervisor

Last updated:May 2015

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Type-2 virtualization continues to evolve to keep up as IT roles expand and cutting-edge technologies mature. VMware has a number of these desktop virtualization tools for users who want to test and develop VMs before pushing them into the production environment.

When choosing what best fits your desktop virtualization needs, the top factors typically include price, features and OS that will support the Type-2 hypervisor. VMware Workstation, Player and Fusion are three products -- each one varying to some degree, which can make it difficult to select one over the others. To help you in your efforts, we've broken down the details of each tool and which ones work best in certain scenarios.

1Fusion

There are quite a few administrators running MacBooks that will need a hypervisor to run a Windows operating system. VMware Fusion and Fusion Professional virtualization platforms both support Apple OSes, which is something that VMware Workstation can't do. Although Fusion and Workstation have some similar features, such as a snapshot manager, they have different focuses.

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