jam wrote:
Hi
the other week someone here was enthusistic about VirtualBox. Would they wax
lyrical about their choice please:
I have tried and am using both VMware and VB under Ubunt 7.10
(not on the same box (-;).
I use them for IE7 testing and some other windows tasks.
The crunch comes in RAM. How much RAM do you have allocated to
the VM?
I find that 2Gig total machine RAM is not enough... depending on
what programs you run within the VM.
I also had a run in with trying to configure the networking of
the VM manually, so I left it to the VM to do that part.
I prefer VB, seems to have less overhead.
Plus I had some bad experiences with VMWare in FC5 (kernel panic
)-:).
Kr.
Luke.
I compare to VMware and find:
The networking is a PIA. No sane (IMHO) person would virtualize a desktop. The
VMs are servers, so bridged network is needed not the NAT.
VB keeps time, VMware does not. VMware loses about 10min/hour without and
gains about 10min/hour with the VMware-tools installed.
VB keeps the CPU at FULL-SPEED, so the host stays pegged at FULL.
For me (amd2, sata) CentOS won't install/run under VMware, although I
downloaded a guest and it works fine. Just wrong size disk !
Works fine under VB, but CPU freq won't scale.
The date is wrong by 8 hours. ntp will fix and hold. TZ is WST ????
VMware drift is outside the ntp limit, so ntp won't fix and hold date
(I think the drift limit is 1 sec in 2000)
So, I'm very interested in VB feedback. Thanks
James
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