On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03:26:37 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > Why would one chose one over the other? > > > > OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. > > Well, yeah, besides the obvious I meant. > > I've schlepped over the *.vmwarevm trees from my OSX box (primary use: > serving as a VMWare Fusion platform) and will muck with getting them > going on VBox. > > There's ye olde "Oh, but I selected SCSI for hard drive format" issue, I > suspect that's not a big issue, though I also suspect that WinXP will > make it one. Grumble. And largely OT.
Oh well nothing is obvious to me :-) My reasons are convenience not performance, afaikt performace between the two is to close for me to call. I run W2k and NT4, images + Debian testing/unstable stuff.. The biggest improvement here is having hardware virtualization in the cpu. I was a Vmware WS user for many years v1.1-v4.5.9, best of breed during those times. After much resistance (to change) I switched to Vbox a year ago, kernel 2.6.26 was the last supported kernel for my Vmware ver. I didn't like the any-any patches, etc to keep Vmware running. I converted my images so Vbox could use them. I don't regret the change. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103022255.11256.gomadtr...@gci.net