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A-dogg
December 28th, 2007, 12:30 AM
Sounds like people tend to prefer VirtualBox, but that could be me only reading the noobie posts... :)

If you have a sec, could you tell me which you think is better for a relative noob who doesn't need 3d gaming or anything? Mostly I want to install palm desktop to use programs with conduits that I can't use with J-Pilot, and to use some non-Linux programs like Final Draft... Internet access (like I have in Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10) would be nice too.

I get the feeling that they're two roads leading to the same city, but...

Thanks in advance for any advice!
pay
December 28th, 2007, 02:18 AM
Well neither support 3d afaik (well maybe the vmware workstation). Both will do what you want really. Vmware is proprietary and virtualbox is opensource (mostly) so maybe that will help you. Theres also qemu...
chris4585
December 28th, 2007, 02:46 AM
i like virtualbox it does what i want it to do... i've tried vmware but i dont think it had the same wow as virtualbox did for me i guess its opinion
Blinkiz
January 5th, 2008, 01:52 AM
If you are going to have Windows XP within a virtual machine, Virtualbox will run it faster than VMWare Server.

Keep in mind not to enable hardware virtualization (VT-x) within Virtualbox. Virtualbox's own way to handle full virtualization is better.
A-dogg
January 5th, 2008, 02:04 AM
cool -- thanks. vbox is what I ended up going with. with VT-x UNchecked.
dpj23
January 6th, 2008, 06:17 PM
VMware hands down...
fjgaude
January 6th, 2008, 07:36 PM
I've tried both sids-by-side for weeks and as it is said, "VMware Server hands down".
unityofsaints
January 6th, 2008, 08:44 PM
I had less problems with getting sound and shared folders working on virtualbox, for the basic win xp VM I would say it's the best option.
Mike'sHardLinux
January 6th, 2008, 08:50 PM
When I tried VirtualBox a few months ago, networking was tricky, especially if your computer used wireless (which mine did.) I couldn't get it to work and stuck with VMware. Has this gotten better or easier?
jasonrandolph
January 10th, 2008, 02:55 PM
The only problem I had was that I changed some of the defaults in networking when setting up XP. After I reinstalled XP and left the defaults as-is, I had no wireless problems. The big mistake I made was that I didn't read far enough in the VB user manual.
dotancohen
March 15th, 2008, 08:13 AM
Keep in mind not to enable hardware virtualization (VT-x) within Virtualbox. Virtualbox's own way to handle full virtualization is better.

Where is this option set? I cannot find it. Thanks.
Kiri
March 15th, 2008, 12:22 PM
Where is this option set? I cannot find it. Thanks.

Preferences>General

I think its off by default though
Kiri
March 15th, 2008, 12:24 PM
I've tried both sids-by-side for weeks and as it is said, "VMware Server hand down".

For those saying this, can you tell us why "VMware hands down"?
Is the performance better? easier to use?
fjgaude
March 15th, 2008, 01:00 PM
For those saying this, can you tell us why "VMware hands down"?
Is the performance better? easier to use?

Well, for a couple of months I ran both on my main box and laptop.

One thing that I required was copy, cut, and paste between Ubuntu and Windows. I got it reliably in vmware, not in vbox.

Another was ease of use and updating paths... I liked vmware the best.

Speed, quickness, hard to say, but both seemed to satisfy my graphic design needs using what you see in my signature below.

The "hands down" has to do with cut-copy-paste for me. For others, let them speak.