On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:53:12AM -0400, Roy wrote:
> Ahhh! I see. (the lights go on)
>
> What are your thoughts on VM Player? Where do you get your VMs?
VMware-player is availble for free, as in Free Diet Mountain Dew, at
VMware's site, but you have to register and fill out a form, how many in
your organization, blah blah, and watch out for the default checks of
yes, you can send me email I won't look at. (I'm paraphrasing here.)
:)
It seems that the improvements and changes are in answer to VirtualBox
It used to only be able to run prebuilt virtual appliances, hwoever, it
can now be used in the same way as VirtualBox. It's rather reminiscent
of VMware-server 1.x, before they changed VMware-server to the ESX like
web interface.
It still, I believe, handles allocation of resources somewhat better
than VirtualBox. If I'm correct in this (and I may not be), if you give
VirtualBox 4 GB of memory, that memory is now unavailable to the
host system. With VMware, it will more dynamically allocate, that is,
using a MAXIMUM of 4 GB, but, unless needed, letting the host system use
it.
Pretty nice interface--I haven't seen many benchmarks recently, my
general impression is that speed of the guest system is usually around
the same as VirtualBox, maybe a bit faster, maybe a bit slower. It does
seem to take more CPU resuorces on the host than VBox, and is much
larger--the install taking something like 800MB vs VBox's 300? (I've
forgotten the size, to be honest.)
VMware, of course, has been at this longer than anyone, and it's a
pretty polished product. (Say that 5 times fast.) At this point, for
my own personal needs, I don't see any real reason to switch from
VirtualBox. Note that they do conflict with each other (and KVM
conflicts with both), so that if you have both on the machine, you have
to stop one before running the other.
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