Virtual Box vs. VmWare Server

[Joey Prestia]

Nathan wrote:
> How many of you have used both vmware and virtual box? I have downloaded 
> virtualbox and I've installed it, but I use vmware a lot. Before I spend too 
> much time playing with it, I wanted your opinions. Vmware can be a hastle 
> sometimes as I keep my kernel up to date with the releases... But virtualbox 
> doesn't seem to have those problems.
> 
> I don't use the USB stuff, as most transfers are done through the host-only 
> network.
> 
> So what say you? is it any good?
> 

I use virtualbox and like it quite a lot it is different in that copying 
a vm has to be done from the command line to work correctly. But I find 
it valuable in working with experimental projects before they get moved 
to a server and use it as a testing ground. I have not used the advanced 
features but plan on it. I dont like the USB functions and have found 
that they will sometimes make files on a usb vboxusers owned and 
vboxusers group even if they belonged to me prior to mounting in a vm so 
i use cdroms or dvd or scp to move files in and out I have sucessfully 
networked them numerous times although it has a habit of assigning 
10.0.2.15 to everything getting a dhcp address so the ips must be hard 
set. I do installs in vms via kickstart with RHEL 5 and it works great. 
I am very impressed with this program.

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