dandantheitman wrote: >> Virtualbox is faster :) easier to install on Ubuntu also. >> > > Easier brad ? > > VMware has a repository > so it is a simple sudo apt-get install vmware-server
Oh, ok.. Virtualbox does the same thing, although I just download the .deb and install it with dkpg. Last time I installed VMWare Server I had to do a lot of futzing around to do with the custom kernels I run. I just dpkg -i virtualbox and it works out of the box. Horses for courses I guess. > Is there a significant amount of performance difference betwen the two ? Significant is not the word I'd use, but it was noticeable. VMWare simply virtualises. Virtualbox actually runtiume patches the guest OS to remove some of the more significant syscalls that trap in Ring0 (which is why you really need to select the precise OS you are running in the guest before you set it up). This does provide quite a speedup with system related stuff (like the UI in XP), whereas for all Ring3 code it only provides advantages when the code executes a lot of syscalls. It is also quite a bit faster on CPU's that don't provide VM extensions. -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
