Have used/played with both, have been with vmware since 2000 too. To each his own buddy, lately since they've considerably moved away from the "close to OSS model" they once had adopted it been a sore point in my mind. Virtual box so far atleast has an OSS version available.
A Sean Craig - enigmatis wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anybody on this list run VMWare and VirtualBox? I've (played with > and) used VMWare since around 2000 - their earliest stuff, and find it > quite a good product. However I do find it a bit heavy on my > machine. That might not be so much a problem right now since I've got > a lot more memory..... > > Why would I move to VirtualBox? > > > Regards > > > Sean > > Brad Campbell wrote: >> For those that have some form of need for a VM and have not yet checked out >> virtualbox, I suggest >> you do so. >> >> I've been a heavy user of Win4Lin and qemu for years now. I tried VMWare but >> it just never grew on >> me. I now have a need for a good VM to be actually productive so I decided >> to give virtualbox a try, >> and *wow*. It installs windows about 35% faster than qemu with kernel >> acceleration and overall it's >> guest integration stuff is just much smoother. >> >> I'm about to drop some $$ on a mac mini (I need a practically silent >> desktop) and I had planned to >> triple boot macos, ubuntu and XP, but this is so good I suspect I'll just >> run XP in a VM under >> ubuntu instead! >> >> Colour me impressed! >> >> Brad >> >
