Sean Craig - enigmatis wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody on this list run VMWare and VirtualBox? I've (played with > and) used VMWare since around 2000 - their earliest stuff, and find it > quite a good product. However I do find it a bit heavy on my machine. > That might not be so much a problem right now since I've got a lot more > memory..... > > Why would I move to VirtualBox?
Speed I believe is the main reason. Apparently virtualbox uses all sorts of guest specific tricks and techniques to reduce the number of required system calls and context switches. I tried VMWare and WinXP on this box and found it a bit quicker than Qemu, but not quick enough to justify the buggering about I had to do to get it installed/running, so I went back to Qemu. Virtualbox is just *loads* faster subjectively. VMWare is solid and has been around for years. These guys seem a bit newer on the block, but they have some stunning ideas on how to speed up virtualisation that nobody else seems to be doing yet. Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
