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VMWare Player. I needed to run Linux in a VM with nested virtualization and hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. VirtualBox doesn't support the former and I couldn
by cypher543 10y ago
VMWare Player. I needed to run Linux in a VM with nested virtualization and hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. VirtualBox doesn't support the former and I couldn't get 3D acceleration to work even after installing the guest additions. Everything worked in VMWare Player right out of the gate.
- tostitos1979 10y agoPlayer is pretty nice no doubt. I also really like Vagrant + Virtualbox. Just works. And I can't believe Virtualbox is from the loins of Oracle.
- xemdetia 10y agoVirtualBox came to Oracle from the Sun acquisition who acquired InnoTek. I really have always preferred VirtualBox over VMWare player, if you are playing the game of many VM's open VMWare player just is not so fun (I usually am running 2+ virtualbox all the time on my main system, not counting secondary systems). It really is the software I am turning to constantly, ever since I was looking for something easier to use than qemu around the time VT extensions hit the Pentium D.
- tostitos1979 10y agoWe should convince the VirtualBox devs to do an AMA or a conference tech talk. Not only is it deep tech, I get the feeling it is a small number of really strong devs running the show (and possibly being ignored by the beast). Their networking options are also fairly awesome IMHO. I guess I'm a VirtualBox fanboy :)
- busterarm 10y agoI found VirtualBox to be super wonky at times. Trying to run an OS X VM on an OS X host on it was "fun". Clang doesn't work out of the box and you had to set some weird and nonintuitive flags to get anything to compile on it. I pretty much will try to use anything else besides VirtualBox when I need a VM.