I've been using virtualbox for roughly 3 years or so for "production",
and no complaints really. I was pleasantly surprised to find
multi-monitor support is pretty good for using win7 inside a vm with
several display windows on ubuntu even with quirky ati video an 6
monitors. I use virtualbox daily for work with an old xp build for
visio and random obscure windoze software I need, and never had a
problem with it.
I'd originally moved to it because vmware server 2.x was/is a basketcase
for usability on workstaitons in most cases, and there wasn't enough
reason to continue to use keygen'd vmware workstation. Reason I wanted
workstation was to try unity in the quest to have visio outside of xp
(the only thing left I *really* need windoze for), and it simply never
worked without crashing x horribly.
I never looked back or was given reason to do so using virtualbox, other
than personal distaste for larry ellison post oracle borging of sun...
-mb
On 10/23/2011 11:27 PM, Nathan England wrote:
Hello Hello,
I have been a longtime user of VirtualBox for windows virtualization in
linux. I do not require a lot, I use it basically for testing web apps
in IE. I don't do Netflix or the sort, but my new Galaxy S has Netflix
on it, so I signed up for a free trial just to try it out on the phone.
Which got me playing with it in the virtual machine as well.
With all the talk lately about VirtualBox being trash (new to me, like I
said, happy customer for years!) I decided I would look into other
things and see what I must be missing because apparently the product
that has worked so well for me these last several years is apparently
"junk"...
I remember a while back I used Vmware Server which was free, but now I
see they have a couple different offerings.
My question is, what do you use and why? Which Vmware product is best
for the basic usage I want and maybe trying Netflix in. My laptop has a
40GB SSD so I am willing to give up a few gigs to a windows install
inside a vm, which I need for testing anyway, but I'm not about to
dual-boot.
I appreciate your feed back.
Nathan
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