[ale] VMPlayer 3 vs VirtualBox

Cameron Kilgore ghostfreeman at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 12:44:08 EST 2012


I've done a couple experiments with headless VirtualBox and the
PhpVirtualBox <http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/> utility. It does
the job.

--Cameron <http://ghostfreeman.net>


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> > My host is Windoze 7 64 bit.
> >
> > I am debating between VMPlayer 3 vs VirtualBox 4.
> >
> > Does it even matter ?  VMPlayer cannot be run headless while VirtualBox
> > I guess can be.
> >
> > Which product is more OpenSource friendly VMP or VBX ?
>
> I don't think either is OpenSource.
>
> I would go with vmplayer. I use both.  Virtualbox on my mac running a
> Centos vm and vmplayer on windows with Fedora vm.  The one failing I see
> with Virtualbox is that you can't simply archive a virtual machine and
> drop it on another Virtualbox machine.  With vmware I can use my Centos
> VM on any machine running vmware.  I understand there is a way to do
> this on virtualbox, but you have hoops to jump through.
>
> One good example.  I installed a new hard drive in my mac.  Originally I
> had two partitions on my mac, one for the Mac stuff, the other for my
> vm.  I had to name the partition the same name as was on the previous
> drive otherwise, virtualbox would not run my archived vm.
>
> Others might have more experience with this issue.  As for me, I'm
> likely to move my virtualbox VM to vmware in the future.
>
> >
> > -Narahari
> >
> >
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