Poll: Oracle Virtualbox vs VMware Workstation/Player

VMware Workstation/Player or Oracle VirtualBox?

  • Total voters
    41

IC3

IC3

IC3

Soldato
Joined
3 Dec 2011
Posts
10,514
So which one do you prefer? I recently tried same OS (TinyCore) on both machines, the VM was a lot quicker than VB. I also had problems with my system because of VB, but I sorted this out and now it works.

My vote goes to VMware Workstation

Edit

VMware Player added to the poll!
 
Last edited:
Generally speaking I believe VMW is considered better than VB. Personally I like VB but it doesn't have the same performance as VMW which isn't an issue for what I use it for.
 
Hades said:
Generally speaking I believe VMW is considered better than VB. Personally I like VB but it doesn't have the same performance as VMW which isn't an issue for what I use it for.
Click to expand...

The funny thing is, when I've VB installed the PC won't go into sleep mode. :eek:
Well it does, but the fans are spinning and when you try to 'wake up' the system, it doesn't react.
 
I'm a huge fan of vmware for its osx virtualising ability. I didn't have any luck getting virtual box to play ball :(

I tried win 8 in virtualbox and it ran like a slug. I may have screwed up but wasn't worth the effort to correct.
 
VMWare Workstation for me. I've used VirtualBox in the past but for doing complex tasks like building networks between multiple running virtual machines and for pure speed I find VMWare just seems better. Plus it appears a lot more stable to me.

I just wish I had more than 16GBs of RAM so I could run more virtual machines at once.
 
Currently use VBox, only because it's free and VMware (to my knowledge) isn't. Performance-wise it seems fine to me, interesting that people say VMware has better performance.
 
stuff paying for workstation when vmware player is free. ok it doesn't do snapshots and a few other fancy things but for simply running a few VMs, it's just the same.
 
for those using virtualbox because it's free, i really do suggest you try vmware player. it's free also.

also, stupid poll is stupid. :p at least include the free vmware option on it. workstation costs just shy of 200 quid - hardly a fair comparison to the free virtualbox.
 
agree, wrong to compare poll £200 software vs free one.

nothing wrong with free one. i installed win 8.1 on VB last night and it was fine. perfectly fine. so i selected VB purely cos it works fine.

if VMW was free then i'd pick the VMW
 
marc2003 said:
also, stupid poll is stupid. :p at least include the free vmware option on it. workstation costs just shy of 200 quid - hardly a fair comparison to the free virtualbox.
Click to expand...
I asked an admin to add the player to the poll, I didn't know that VMware Workstation costs 200 quid. I got it for free from my friend, if Player is only missing couple options and has same performance than there's no point in using VB. :)

Edit

wesley said:
agree, wrong to compare poll £200 software vs free one.

nothing wrong with free one. i installed win 8.1 on VB last night and it was fine. perfectly fine. so i selected VB purely cos it works fine.

if VMW was free then i'd pick the VMW
Click to expand...
I've used VB on Win XP, 7 and now 8.1 Pro and I've experienced a lot of bugs on this system (win 8.1) with VB. If the Player is free and does what you want, you should check it out.

Edit2

Instead of using Dual-boot like a lot people do, I use Linux like this...

That's why performance is important to me
63BxAn4.jpg
 
Last edited:
when you use the new virtual machine wizard, there are a few steps missing where you set the amount of ram, cpu cores, network type etc but it's pretty irrelevant because you can edit the settings when the wizard is complete. it uses the same dialog as workstation....

vmware.png


i mentioned above it doesn't have snapshots and it's also missing the network editor meaning you can't change advanced NAT/dhcp settings. i doubt many people do this. i use bridged networking myself so it's a non issue for me.

under the hood it's all the same and i think it's plenty good enough for the vast majority of people.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom