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I run Ubuntu 16.04 VM using VMWare Workstation Pro on Windows 10 and I love it. I rarely go to Windows. One great thing I love about running the VM is being abl
by monster_group 10y ago
I run Ubuntu 16.04 VM using VMWare Workstation Pro on Windows 10 and I love it. I rarely go to Windows. One great thing I love about running the VM is being able to make clones. If I screw up my dev environment, I don't need to set it up again, I just use a previously created clone which I store on another disk. This advantage alone gives me great peace of mind and I am willing to compromise a little bit on performance. The performance hit is barely noticeable as long as you have a modern processor and SSD. SSD is the absolutely important for good VM performance. I used to use VirtualBox a few years ago and it used to crash. I tried VMWware Workstation and the difference was night and day. I never touched Virtual Box again.
- marpstar 10y agoI'll second this notion that VMWare is better than VirtualBox. VirtualBox can get the job done, but you can tell where your money went when you purchase VMWare. It's significantly more polished and stable.
- larrik 10y agoIt's worlds better, but it screws up my mouse settings (with a Linux host). I have a fancy gaming mouse, so it's very annoying and noticeable, and I haven't found a solution yet.
- markdoubleyou 10y agoThanks, this is good to know. I've only had limited success with VirtualBox--my guests' performance takes a dive when I assign them more than 2 virtual CPUs (both Linux and Windows guests). Looks like VMWare Workstation is on sale for $162 today. Might take the plunge.
- laurencei 10y agoI also use VMWare Workstation Pro. The other big difference is the file access times are significantly faster on VMWare compared to Vagrant. So for me, as a PHP developer, my page loads time are 5x faster for VMWare compared to Vagrant