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for VMs on a personal computer, is there any reason to use VMWare over Virtualbox?
by plg 11y ago
for VMs on a personal computer, is there any reason to use VMWare over Virtualbox?
- Perceptes 11y agoI haven't seen any benchmarks recently, but it's historically been noticeably faster. Vagrant's VMware plugin page has a general overview, although it's marketing material and not very technical: https://www.vagrantup.com/vmware/ https://www.vagrantup.com/vmware/
- arca_vorago 11y agoMostly serial or usb interface speed and driver issues when running windows hosts. Virtualbox is certainly getting better and better in that regard though. There is also better gpu support from anedotal experience.
- i336_ 11y agoRelated question: What about VMware/VirtualBox vs qemu-kvm? Obviously its UI etc is much more raw - I'm curious how it compares performancewise.
- Hupriene 11y agoI develop on linux vm running on a windows host, I've found VMWare to be considerably more stable and slightly more performant than virtualbox.
- jazzyb 11y agoMy personal experience: It depends on the guest OS. I'm on a Mac. VMWare Fusion runs Windows 7 and 8 with noticeably less lag than VirtualBox. For Linux (Ubuntu Trusty) and FreeBSD 10, I've never noticed a difference.
- jk563 11y agoNested virtualisation. To my knowledge VirtualBox does not yet support this, and has been steadfast in its refusal for years[1]. [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4032 https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4032
- maxxxxx 11y agoI am trying VirtualBox from time to time but so far VMWare wins every time. It's faster and has better hardware compatibility.
- toyg 11y agoTechnically speaking, it is miles better: faster and more robust, as well as more polished. However, it's losing the standardization field to VirtualBox, all OSS tools are using that by default and vmware support is always lagging.