Virtualbox
[Notice: Only programming-related questions are on-topic] Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, now developed by Oracle Corporation
Vmware
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Better slower server
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"In my experience i ve found that vmware seems to be faster than virtualbox although i don t have any hard data to back it up" from question Benchmark: VMware vs Virtualbox "From my experience vmware 5 is faster than virtualbox 4.2 rc3 and has better smp performance" from question VMWare Player vs VMWare Workstation |
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"Virtualbox is slower than vmware" from question Hadoop Hortonworks servers down |
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"Fwiw i have never gotten freebsd to work properly under virtualbox perhaps if you need that you would be better off with vmware which does" from question A Development Machine in VirtualBox - (Debian-min vs ArchLinux vs recommend-one) "I am not sure if vmware server will be much better than virtualbox" from question Compiling and running cross-platform test environment |
Free powerfull good
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"Even though vmware has been faster for me i still use virtualbox because it s good enough and is free and im cheap" from question Benchmark: VMware vs Virtualbox |
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"Virtualbox free but less powerfull than vmware" from question What are some ways that I can develop C++ apps in Linux from a Windows workstation? |
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"At home w ubuntu linux virtualbox is easier to maintain performs as well as i require and is free;vmware player is too feature limited" from question Benchmark: VMware vs Virtualbox |
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"Vmware doesn t seem to have the same issue;running on linux virtualbox seems much happier and linux can be very light weight" from question Virtual box based development for windows |
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However i found that vmware is much more stable full screen resolution much much better to handle the iphone connection via usb and i didn t have yet any crash when on virtualbox it s quite often from question Rad Studio 10 and Mac OSX Sierra (virtualbox guest) |
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See this virtualbox ticket you may have more luck with vmware as indicated in the comments from question Minikube on VM: this computer doesn't have vt-x/amd-v enabled |
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Vmware has more features but costs 80 virtualbox on the other hand is more basic but is free for most users see virtualbox licensing faq for details from question How can I test my web pages in Microsoft Internet Explorer on a Mac? |
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Just make sure that when you add the vmdk into vmware don t click upgrade format when prompted keep the current one in case virtualbox doesn t accept it;you can use vmware player to resize a vmdk from question How to resize a VirtualBox vmdk file |
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Im trying very hard to like virtualbox but so far i find it so much worse than vmware in so many ways from question VirtualBox Fullscreen Host OS Toolbar still visible |
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I really miss this feature on virtualbox because i find vmware to be bloated and it slows the host system down much more than virtualbox does;as far as i know virtualbox does not support it but vmware does even in their free vmware from question Enable hyper-V on Windows 2012 |
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And frankly if you re doing that then yes it s a real pita and vmware is way easier;my biggest beef with virtualbox is that you can t take a vm and move a vm plus a vm snapshots and branches to another pc from question Am I wrong to give up on Virtual Box after a bad performance on some disaster recovery trial scenarios? |