VMWare, Virtual PC or Virtualbox?
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vmware player 3.0 
vmware player 3 is the free alternative to workstation. it has all the aero/gpu acceleration/drag & drop stuff. the average user isn't going to notice the difference between the 2. my only beef with it is the ugly as sin "skin" they use for the window which ignores the windows theme you use.
Virtualbox seems ok, been using it daily for the last few weeks, only problem is it keeps running out of virtual memory so 192mb probably isn't enough...
Also I've had the occasional issue where using my main pc some of the keys end up becoming shortcuts after using VB, so typing a sentence ends up opening a load of applications. Anyone else have this?
Also I've had the occasional issue where using my main pc some of the keys end up becoming shortcuts after using VB, so typing a sentence ends up opening a load of applications. Anyone else have this?
Yes, I must admit that does my nut in and requires a reboot (too lazy to work out the problem)
Hi,
Using both of these (on a linux host) and both are very good. Would say that Virtualbox is very good for a 'free' product when compared to VMWorkstation however workstation has better snapshot and networking support.
Virtualisation will have an effect on the performance of the guest OS however this is mitigated somewhat if you have dual or quad core cpu's. I run many test environments within workstation and have noticed very large performance gains when moving from e6600 to q9550 (and 8Gb memory and RAID10 array
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Go for Virtualbox and see how that works for you and you can then decide if you need to stump up for VMWorkstation's features. Think that VMplayer does not allow you to create vm's where as Virtualbox does.
What's virtual pc?
Using both of these (on a linux host) and both are very good. Would say that Virtualbox is very good for a 'free' product when compared to VMWorkstation however workstation has better snapshot and networking support.
Virtualisation will have an effect on the performance of the guest OS however this is mitigated somewhat if you have dual or quad core cpu's. I run many test environments within workstation and have noticed very large performance gains when moving from e6600 to q9550 (and 8Gb memory and RAID10 array
)Go for Virtualbox and see how that works for you and you can then decide if you need to stump up for VMWorkstation's features. Think that VMplayer does not allow you to create vm's where as Virtualbox does.
What's virtual pc?
...then you're not aware of the new version of vmware player. that allows the creation/editing of virtual machines using the same interface/options as workstation. you don't get the virtual network editor, snapshot tools, recording and such like but it's not really an issue.
What's virtual pc?
damned straight.
did you do it properly? installing additions in safe mode?
anyway, if you want aero then you'll need to use vmware. you can get a 30 day trial of workstation or a vmware player which is totally free. it just requires you create an account on the vmware website.