When comparing Proxmox vs VMWare Workstation, the Slant community recommends VMWare Workstation for most people. In the question“What is the best Virtual Machine (VM) for developers?” VMWare Workstation is ranked 4th while Proxmox is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose VMWare Workstation is:
Works with [Vagrant](http://www.vagrantup.com/), an awesome tool for managing and deploying virtual machine images.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free
Free with no restrictions like missing backup facilities.
Pro Works with Vagrant
Works with Vagrant, an awesome tool for managing and deploying virtual machine images.
Pro High-availability
There is very little to no downtime of the Virtual desktops that are hosted in a datacenter.
Pro Can do snapshots
Workstation is capable of taking whole-system snapshots and writing them to a backing file.
Pro Windows / Linux host
Can be installed on Windows and Linux systems.
Cons
Con No Windows installer
Proxmox is Debian based, and although it can be installed in an existing Debian system it is easier to install from the .iso image.
Con No snapshotting support in the free version
Con Pro version is overpriced
The pro version which has snapshot support is ridiculously overpriced. What's worse, major releases require a brand new license, but generally don't add much more functionality.
Con Horrible user interface
Too often you get "vm is used by another user" or "can't revert to snapshot" for whatever reasons without simple solutions. In most cases, it just throws knowledge base links to you. Not even clickable. Way overpriced.