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VirtualBox is a great tool for sure. VMWare does beat VB for large amounts of virtual machines. But that should really not matter to anyone who's not running a

• evilduck 15y ago
  In the personal use realm, VB (mostly the guest tools) just isn't very slick compared to VMWare. Dual screens usage, seamless/unity modes, resizing windows, clipboard transfers, drive mounting, etc, are almost always a better experience with VMWare (fusion/workstation). The biggest reason I use VB in many places is because you can't argue with the price.
  • benatkin 15y ago
    Vagrant provides a good UX for devs using VMs for web servers IMO. http://vagrantup.com/ http://vagrantup.com/ I have a fully-licensed copy of the latest version of VMWare Workstation for OS X and still use VirtualBox with Vagrant.
    • alnayyir 15y ago
      Last time I tried it, it didn't work. Wasn't really in the mood to filter through many false positives on Google, so I dropped it. The "UX" of Vagrant fails when it doesn't work on a rather vanilla debian workstation.
      • mitchellh 15y ago
        Creator of Vagrant here. I'm sorry you had a poor experience. Get in touch with me at mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com and I can help you get through any issues you may be having. Not being able to set it up easily is definitely a "bug" in my book!
      • alnayyir 15y ago
        Looks like my problem was a long-standing but hard to reproduce issue. I lost the repro, but vagrant started working thanks to Mitchell's help.