I respect your opinion about virtualbox Chris, but virtualbox best than
vmware?? Absolutely not. It's free, yes but is worst in most aspects
than vmware.
Please note I said "as good if not better". In my experience with
vmware and virtualbox, I have had more issues with vmware than with
virtualbox. Again, YMMV - and clearly you've had better experience with
vmware than virtualbox - that's cool with me :)
For example, under vmware you can run ANY operating system that runs on
i386 platforms with more performance than virtualbox (included
unsupported operated systems), with virtualbox not.
Mac OSX runs on vmware now? ;) I joke!
Well, as for compatibility with guest OSes:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes
It's not a whole lot of systems that don't run on VirtualBox. Generally
I use VirtualBox for windows XP and linux systems I wish to try out for
curiosity's sake. For these purposes, virtualbox works amazingly well
for free software :)
Also, I would think performance is a moot point when it comes to
Virtual Machines, particularly if you are using something like
virtualbox (or whatever vmware's equivalent is.. vmware player?).
And about using USB passthrought and 3D support. I don't know which type
of problems do you have got with vmware, but I have a Windows 7
installed with this feautures and it is fast and simple to configure
under vmware.
I'm not doubting it is. :) I simply wanted to give voice to an open
source alternative to vmware.
-Chris
