What are the limitations of Vmware Player for Personal Use vs. Pro?

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vmWare moved features from the free Workstation Player to Workstation Pro

vmWare Player v 5 lets me also use Workstation 9.

the latest vmWare Workstation Player appears to be missing the Snapshots feature from vmware Workstation 9. That's a pretty important feature for me.

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Daimon

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Comments

Daimon over 1 year

I'm trying to decide between using VirtualBox or Vmware's free (for non commercial user) Workstation Player I can't find out what a "restricted virtual machine" is anywhere.

I currently have Vmware Player (free/home) version 5 and it's fine. Wanted to make sure that version 12 didn't have some crippleware.

Workstation 12 Player is licensed for commercial use and is enabled to run restricted virtual machines. If you simply want to learn more about virtual machines or run virtual machines at home in a non-commercial environment you may use Workstation 12 Player at no cost. - See more at:

https://www.vmware.com/products/player/#sthash.iVRgNZ7n.dpuf
- Ramhound about 8 years
  
  Product feature separation has not really changed just the name of the free version of the software (workstation)
- Ben N about 8 years
  
  Note to close voters: I don't think this is a software recommendation, since it's asking about specific features of some programs.
somebadhat almost 4 years

For Workstation Pro: 1,2Gb? For Workstation Pro: 1.2Gb? For Workstation Pro: 1-2Gb?
CesarSant2000 almost 4 years

@Ramhound the source of the table was added.