Virtualization

[Michael Butash]

I've been using virtualbox for roughly 3 years or so for "production", 
and no complaints really.  I was pleasantly surprised to find 
multi-monitor support is pretty good for using win7 inside a vm with 
several display windows on ubuntu even with quirky ati video an 6 
monitors.  I use virtualbox daily for work with an old xp build for 
visio and random obscure windoze software I need, and never had a 
problem with it.

I'd originally moved to it because vmware server 2.x was/is a basketcase 
for usability on workstaitons in most cases, and there wasn't enough 
reason to continue to use keygen'd vmware workstation.  Reason I wanted 
workstation was to try unity in the quest to have visio outside of xp 
(the only thing left I *really* need windoze for), and it simply never 
worked without crashing x horribly.

I never looked back or was given reason to do so using virtualbox, other 
than personal distaste for larry ellison post oracle borging of sun...

-mb


On 10/23/2011 11:27 PM, Nathan England wrote:
> Hello Hello,
>
> I have been a longtime user of VirtualBox for windows virtualization in
> linux. I do not require a lot, I use it basically for testing web apps
> in IE. I don't do Netflix or the sort, but my new Galaxy S has Netflix
> on it, so I signed up for a free trial just to try it out on the phone.
> Which got me playing with it in the virtual machine as well.
>
> With all the talk lately about VirtualBox being trash (new to me, like I
> said, happy customer for years!) I decided I would look into other
> things and see what I must be missing because apparently the product
> that has worked so well for me these last several years is apparently
> "junk"...
>
> I remember a while back I used Vmware Server which was free, but now I
> see they have a couple different offerings.
>
> My question is, what do you use and why? Which Vmware product is best
> for the basic usage I want and maybe trying Netflix in. My laptop has a
> 40GB SSD so I am willing to give up a few gigs to a windows install
> inside a vm, which I need for testing anyway, but I'm not about to
> dual-boot.
>
> I appreciate your feed back.
>
> Nathan
>
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