A good VM Application

gazfocus · 1 Oct 2008 at 15:09

IS there a VM application that's particularly better than any other? (i.e. VMware, VirtualPC, etc)...for windows

Burnsy2023 · 1 Oct 2008 at 15:34

I prefer VMware over any other, but Virtualbox is very popular. I would generally say VPC was at the bottom of the pile.

gazfocus · 1 Oct 2008 at 15:39

Burnsy2023 said:
I prefer VMware over any other, but Virtualbox is very popular. I would generally say VPC was at the bottom of the pile.

Ok, thanks...Yeah the only reason I suggest VPC is because I can get it free (as a Computer student at uni)

bledd · 1 Oct 2008 at 15:44

VPC is free for anyone now

Virtualbox is my program of choice here.. it's fast as heck

Cob · 1 Oct 2008 at 16:27

VMWare Server. It's free too.

JIM_BOB7813 · 1 Oct 2008 at 18:22

VMware (workstation) is good, but as bledd said, Virtualbox is faster (much faster at resuming paused machines). Vbox is free too

zetec452 · 1 Oct 2008 at 18:49

VMWare server 2 gets my vote. A nice bit of software.

Daegan · 1 Oct 2008 at 19:20

VMware for all the bells and whistles, and if you have to run a 64-bit guest OS. VirtualBox for everything else.

lokkers · 1 Oct 2008 at 19:29

Daegan said:
VMware for all the bells and whistles, and if you have to run a 64-bit guest OS..

But only if you can enable VT in your BIOS and you processor supports it (my Wolfdale 7200 doesn't, for example)

gazfocus · 1 Oct 2008 at 20:21

lokkers said:
But only if you can enable VT in your BIOS and you processor supports it (my Wolfdale 7200 doesn't, for example)

Hi...what's VT?

My current CPU is an E6600 but will be upgrading it soon.

Thanks

lokkers · 1 Oct 2008 at 20:40

gazfocus said:
Hi...what's VT?