For my hobby consisting of a few physical boxes each running a VM or three, VMWare seemed like over-kill. Though these days, Cloud environments, such as OpenStack, seem like a better approach for larger installations. Were I to try to run a huge installation of virtual machines, I might feel differently. I always felt these were too invasive to the host, and overall too heavy-weight for no benefit I could see or that I really needed. I have also used various VMWare products, including Fusion on OS X, VMWare Player, and ESXi. However, there are two things I'm not completely happy about with VirtualBox: it does not virtualize the AES-NI x86 instructions, and I cannot assign physical devices to virtual machines. Never had a problem or felt there was a performance problem. Guests include(d) Win XP, Win 7, Win 8.x, various Linux distros, and most flavors of BSD.
#VMWARE PLAYER UBUNTU MAC OS X WINDOWS 7#
I use it quite heavily, doing almost everything in VMs, hosted on Windows 7 and 8.x, OS X, and of course Linux. I have also used VirtualBox for years, and plan to continue to do so. VMware requires you to buy Workstation or Fusion to get that feature. With snapshots you can take a shot of your VM as it is, then do something that might break it, and if it breaks you restore to the snapshot and try again. One killer feature that VBox has but Player doesn't: snapshots. Windows 98SE, because VBox doesn't have any guest utilities for them. VMware is also better for old versions of Windows, e.g. Contrariwise, it's a lot easier to tell a VirtualBox VM to boot from a different drive, since you can do it in the GUI there, but for VMware you have to either hammer the key to get into the BIOS setup or just edit the. Generally I use 64-bit Windows for my host OS.Īs of a few versions ago, VMware had much faster USB 2.0 emulation than VB did, so any virtual machine that needed an external USB hard drive was done in VMware.
#VMWARE PLAYER UBUNTU MAC OS X MAC OS X#
I generally use VMware Player for Windows & Mac OS X VMs and VirtualBox for Linux distros, mainly because the guest utilities are better (at any rate, more convenient) for those respective platforms.
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