[wplug] VmWare

[Sam Al-Droubi]

"Teodorski, Chris" <teodorski at ppg.com> wrote: I'd like to get a plug in for VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/).  I've been using it to develop a security lab, for testing, playing etc and I've been VERY impressed with it.  I've had experience with VMWare and with VirtualBox and I'd say VirtualBox hangs pretty well with VmWare.  I have no data to back this up, but it seems that VirtualBox performs better than VMWare Server (but I have to real data to support that, so take it for what it is worth).

Chris

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From: wplug-bounces+teodorski=ppg.com at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-bounces+teodorski=ppg.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Moshe Hyzon
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:03 AM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] VmWare

Get vmware server (http://vmware.com/products/server/)  It's free as
in beer. It runs like a charm under any reasonably new Linux distro
(they provide rpms or tarballs), and I have hardly ever had any
problems with it. It really is the best virtualization software out
there.

Xen is nice in that it is opensource, but in my estimation it really
only excels at running Linux on Linux.  VMware will pretty much run
any x86(_64) on any x86(_64).

Moshe Hyzon

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Weber, Lawrence A  wrote:
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> For embedded product development I usually use PC's dedicated to either
> Linux or Windows.  Dual booting is a pain.
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> For my next project it has been suggested that I use VmWare to run both op
> sys simultaneously.  I have not seen VmWare for many years and remember it
> being somewhat limited.  Without starting a war here, can anyone identify
> any serious limitations of VmWare?
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I have used both vmware server, vmware workstation and virtualbox.  I found that virtualbox was easier to setup on both Windows and Linux hosts.   Additionally, I feel that virtualbox performs better than vmware but I did not benchmark this myself.  Lastly, virtualbox is open-source.   Check out this link for benchmark results if you are interested:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=257727



Sincerely, 
Sam Al-Droubi, M.S.
saldroubi at yahoo.com
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