Virtual Box vs. VmWare Server

[Tony E - Jaraeth]

I like VirtualBox alot.  I don't use it for anything of a "production" 
status, but I use it alot for testing Linux distro's I'm not that 
familiar with, or Windows Server (yeah, gasp) *BSD, etc.  I haven't 
touched upon the USB side of things, but I do have about 8 different 
instances, with static IP's (technically DHCP assigned static IP's), and 
I have had them interact with production systems.

The quality for me, seems to increase with the more RAM and disk space I 
give it, but for something I use on a testing level, I don't give my 
virtual instances a lot of resources to begin with.  I like it, and use 
it over VMware for testing.

HTH,

~ Tony


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?
>
>