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I've used Xen, VMWare workstation 9/10, but primarily Virtualbox since 2008, on linux and windows hosts and linux and windows guests. Virtualbox has really nev

I've used Xen, VMWare workstation 9/10, but primarily Virtualbox since 2008, on linux and windows hosts and linux and windows guests. Virtualbox has really never let me down, I don't see any reason to use VMware workstation over it.

cartoonfoxes 11y ago
Personally, I've stuck with VMWare because the licensing costs are low enough that I'm never sufficiently motivated to spend time on a Virtualbox shakedown.
Rondom 11y ago
Last time I checked the seamless mode of VMWare was VASTLY superiour to the VirtualBox one. While VirtualBox did not much more than hide your desktop-background and make it transparent, VMware integrated the window manager of the guest OS into the host OS (i.e. guest-windows would appear in the host-OS window manager's window list). Furthermore it overlaid the screen with a button with an applications menu (native to the host-OS) sourced from the guest OS. Nowadays I am without a WMware licence, and I found that KVM and its frontends are enough for my use cases right now because I do not rely on Windows-VMs for my day-to-day work so I can always use X forwarding for an integrated experience.
- lenkite 11y ago
  Extensively evaluated Vmware player vs virtual box for Ubuntu 14.04 desktop on W8.1 on my Thinkpad. Vmware might be a touch faster but too many things are broken - touchpad scrolling doesn't work - requires hacks to get this running ineffectively. Suspend and resume doesn't work..etc. Went back to Virtualbox since the experience is smoother.