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copied!<p><strong>VMWare Workstation</strong> will do all of the above, and more:</p> <ul> <li>Create whole-cloth (straight file copies) or delta-only (which uses a "parent" image and only records changes) clones of machines</li> <li>Simulate an environment with multiple machines (useful for client-server)</li> <li>Integration with Visual Studio debugger</li> <li>Screen captures / recordings</li> <li>Import physical machines as images, appliances, OVA's (open virtual machines), and also Export a few other formats.</li> </ul> <p><strong>VMWare Player</strong> allows you to deploy a single machine to someone else free of charge. It does not create or change images. What PDFs are to Acrobat Reader, VM images are to VMWare Player.</p> <p><strong>VMWare Server</strong> is their older server product, now free of charge. Some products still integrate with this.</p> <p><strong>VMWare ESXi</strong> is their light-weight enterprise solution, now free as of last year. It allows for multiple images to be used, but lacks high-end tools, such as live migration. This is mostly used in the SMB market, as it can only deal with a single machine and lacks the integration features of its "big brother".</p> <p><strong>VMWare ESX</strong> is the "heavy" for-pay solution (the big brother of ESXi) and has all of the high-end goodies needed for a virtualized server environment, including live migration of running machines from server to server (yes, you can move across hardware), shared images, shared filesystem, etc.</p>

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