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VMWare Workstation vs VirtualBox

402blownstroker said:
Is VMware workstation the equivalent of Oracle's VirtualBox?
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Yes, except crappier.

The free version does none of the cool stuff they show on their site. VirtualBox is better. The pro-version on the other hand has some interesting features, but by the time you get that advance you should just be running a Hyper-V or ESXi server anyways.
 
leeleatherwood said:
Yes, except crappier.

The free version does none of the cool stuff they show on their site. VirtualBox is better. The pro-version on the other hand has some interesting features, but by the time you get that advance you should just be running a Hyper-V or ESXi server anyways.
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VMware Workstation = $ (very good product IMHO ver 8 and 9 have been great for me)
VMWare Player = Free
 
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Netwerkz101 said:
VMware Workstation = $ (very good product IMHO ver 8 and 9 have been great for me)
VMWare Player = Free
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Yes my bad.

VMWare Player is the free "version", Workstation is the paid one.

It still stands (IMO) that if you are using alot of the features of the Workstation you should probably just have an ESXi or HyperV server.
 
leeleatherwood said:
Yes, except crappier.

The free version does none of the cool stuff they show on their site. VirtualBox is better. The pro-version on the other hand has some interesting features, but by the time you get that advance you should just be running a Hyper-V or ESXi server anyways.
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VB 4.2 on linux has had a lot of stability issues for me here lately. Playing around a little with VMware Workstation, things just seem to work.

What is the maun differences between WMware workstation and player?
 
402blownstroker said:
VB 4.2 on linux has had a lot of stability issues for me here lately. Playing around a little with VMware Workstation, things just seem to work.

What is the maun differences between WMware workstation and player?
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http://www.vmware.com/products/player/faqs.html

How does VMware Player compare to VMware Workstation?
VMware Player enables you to quickly and easily create and run virtual machines.
However, VMware Player lacks many powerful features, remote connections to vSphere,
drag and drop upload to vSphere, multiple Snapshots and Clones, and much more.
 
402blownstroker said:
VB 4.2 on linux has had a lot of stability issues for me here lately.
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Why would you want either of these tools on Linux? KVM (or Xen if using an old distro) is already part of the kernel and will offer you better performance and more features than either either VBox or VMWare Workstation.
 
I've used all 3 apps mentioned.

VMWare Player - works really well with almost every OS I've emulated. 3D acceleration & virtual device support keeps this free version relevant. I definitely does lack power features though.

VMWare Workstation - it's right in between Player & ESXi since there are a lot more features to configure & utilize but still lacks the ability to define certain hardware features. Editing the VMX files is the only way around this (can be done with Player VMs as well). I'm currently running the newest version for all of my VMs.

VirtualBox - has good community support & is completely free. Has more features than VMWare Player but doesn't always compete completely with Workstation. Driver support for certain OSes can be spotty & 3D acceleration can be a pain to deal with.

I'm admittedly biased towards VMWare products since I prefer the interface & VMX editing syntax. To each their own though. [strike=down]VirtualBox is as good as it gets for a community supported product.[/s] Workstation is the best way to go for enterprise compatibility & knowledge. The support is great for it, too.
 
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CrimsonKnight13 said:
VirtualBox is as good as it gets for a community supported product.
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Definitely not. KVM is community supported (unlike VirtualBox which is really just Oracle-supported now) and trumps VBox feature-wise in almost every way. VBox's main strength these days is that (like VMWare) the VM images work the same on every single host platform. You can't just pick up a KVM image and run it on a Windows host. Other than that, KVM has a stronger feature set than both VBox and even VMWare Workstation.
 
KVM is the virtualization technology - if you want a GUI you need something on top. There seem to be two sets of choices: very heavyweight cloud/cluster solutions, or single-host GUIs. If you have a GUI already on your desktop, you can just the the libvirt based solutions. There is proxmox which runs on a debian platform using kvm, but it requires a dedicated box, so no better than ESXi, IMO..
 
Good to know. I usually only use VMs through VMWare Workstation, so I haven't tested many of the alternates.
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
Does KVM have a GUI & is it *nix only? I've never used it.
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There are several GUI choices. RedHat wrote one using GTK that's included with RHEL and Fedora (but can be installed on any other distro from source). There's a couple of WebUI options (everything from multi-system cluster managers down to a single-page app to start/stop/restart your VMs). Libvirt includes command-line tools for managing your VMs as well. You can connect to your VMs directly through VNC or through a VNC client nested inside of a manager. KVM in Linux is part of the kernel, but it will run on BSD and Solaris as a module.
 
Hmmmm..... completely unaware of KVM. I will be taking a look at it tonight. Normally I run linux, but sometime I need to run a couple of window native apps. Ideally I like to run the windows native apps in a VM so I do not have to deal with the whole reboot non-sense.
 
As an IT, I prefer Virtualbox for the following reasons :
  • Easer to install on linux (apt-get install)
  • Cleaner VM file (only one xml configuration file)
  • Scriptability
  • Vagrant Box ! http://www.vagrantup.com/
  • Free :)
 
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