I know this is still expensive, so feel free to vote cold, but considering VMware rarely has discounts for this, I thought I'd post this for the few people who would be interested.
Their Facebook page suggests that the offer ends on 9 March at 11:59PST, which - I *think* - is 19:59 on Thursday, UK time, but the countdown timer on the ordering page suggets that it will end at 8am Thursday, so there's not very long left, sorry!
Their previous Black Friday offer was 40% off, so if you can wait 8 months then perhaps they might do that again...
All comments (30)
jasee
8 Mar 171#1
Yes it seems expensive but it supports both Linux and Windows systems, the last version I bought supported either one or the other (some years ago!) The timer says only about 10 hours to go (at about 10 pm (uk time))
Scotty.Boy to jasee
8 Mar 171#2
+1 - I'd buy it but I'm skint!!! :-(
qinyanggl
8 Mar 17#3
What's wrong with VirtualBox?
Gkains to qinyanggl
8 Mar 171#4
Nothing. That's what I use.
But VMware Workstation does have far better virtual networking options AFAIK. Also, never got any of my VirtualBox VMs to successfully export into ESXi the last time I tried (but then again the ones I made in VMWare Player didn't import either).
Think hardware support is a lot better too with the 3D graphics actually working (but who wants to play old WinDOS games on a VM?), and USB being better too.
tech3475 to qinyanggl
9 Mar 17#13
I've never found it as good as vmware, at least for the OSs I tried.
androoski to qinyanggl
9 Mar 171#16
1. Oracle
2. Its virtual network adapters can be intrusive and in my case they interferes with VPNs and have to be disabled,, even if VirtualBox is not in use, before I can use the VPNs. (VPNs for Citrix Anyconnect, Cisco VPN and Citrix that I use for homeworking). .
I use VMWare Player, it has no such problems. There is even a workaround to do snapshotting (which you would get anyway with 12.5 Pro)
twomoons
8 Mar 17#5
I much prefer Virtualbox and use it as home and at work.
roycom
8 Mar 171#6
I've had nothing but trouble with VirtualBox for the last few years, every time I open it something seems to break or go wrong. In contrast, VMWare just "works". My license expires in July so this deal is something to think about.
BrianM to roycom
9 Mar 17#15
To me VMWare seemed over-complicated bloatware last time I used it (a few years ago!) and Virtualbox has worked perfectly for me (professionally!)
I typically have 2 or (or more) Linux Virtualbox instances running concurrently under Windows 10.
Roger_Irrelevant
9 Mar 17#7
I use VMware but had issues where the mouse movement within the VM was sluggish to the point it was unusable. However if I enabled Remote Desktop in the VM then just use mstsc.exe to connect from the host it's all fine.
maui to Roger_Irrelevant
9 Mar 171#8
Did you have the VMware Tools installed? That would affect the mouse performance.
slimy31 to Roger_Irrelevant
9 Mar 17#10
I only ever do that anyway. I find some software doesn't like running within the VM window, but RDP into the VM works fine.
eaxlns
9 Mar 17#9
Anyone able to advise if it's possible to have my VMware in the cloud so it's possible to access from any device?
slimy31 to eaxlns
9 Mar 17#11
You can, but it would be redundant. Most cloud offerings are just virtual machines anyway, so you'd have VMWare running on VMWare (or similar). If you want a host to access from anywhere, just rent an AWS instance or similar.
slimy31
9 Mar 17#12
By the way, if anyone wants to look at VMWare, their workstation 12 player is free for non-commercial use. It doesn't have some of the extra frills for the pro, but for spinning up new virtual machines it's fine.
You can also get development instances of Windows that have a complete configured environment that will boot in VMWare;
They only have a few months lifetime, but you can just download another when it expires. They're great if there's something you want to try out and then bin when you're done.
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Opening post
Their Facebook page suggests that the offer ends on 9 March at 11:59PST, which - I *think* - is 19:59 on Thursday, UK time, but the countdown timer on the ordering page suggets that it will end at 8am Thursday, so there's not very long left, sorry!
Their previous Black Friday offer was 40% off, so if you can wait 8 months then perhaps they might do that again...
All comments (30)
But VMware Workstation does have far better virtual networking options AFAIK. Also, never got any of my VirtualBox VMs to successfully export into ESXi the last time I tried (but then again the ones I made in VMWare Player didn't import either).
Think hardware support is a lot better too with the 3D graphics actually working (but who wants to play old WinDOS games on a VM?), and USB being better too.
2. Its virtual network adapters can be intrusive and in my case they interferes with VPNs and have to be disabled,, even if VirtualBox is not in use, before I can use the VPNs. (VPNs for Citrix Anyconnect, Cisco VPN and Citrix that I use for homeworking). .
I use VMWare Player, it has no such problems. There is even a workaround to do snapshotting (which you would get anyway with 12.5 Pro)
I typically have 2 or (or more) Linux Virtualbox instances running concurrently under Windows 10.
You can also get development instances of Windows that have a complete configured environment that will boot in VMWare;
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines
They only have a few months lifetime, but you can just download another when it expires. They're great if there's something you want to try out and then bin when you're done.