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VMWare has the management tools and the gee-whiz features in their enterprise virtualization (bare-metal hypervisor) kit. While that's possible, there's a lot of money at stake in the Virtualization field, and I think the odds of that happening are low.
So if there's anyone who can compete there, it is him.īut still, it is not an enviable position to be in, and it makes me wonder how they are going to compete in the long term? Especially since, from a technology basis, the Open Source efforts are arguably better.Īnyone care to add some insightful comments on this? The only way that I can see VMWare winning is if everyone else screws up. Some might remember Paul Maritz as being one of the top people from Microsoft, as well as having led Microsoft's original *NIX strategy (I.e. To VMWare's credit, they have arguably the best person in the world for the job as CEO (at least on paper). However, now I find myself using Xen more, and seriously considering Sun's offerings.
I've been a big fan of VMWare in the past, as it has saved my butt more than once. So I have to wonder how VMWare is going to stand up in the future? Namely, that VMWare is stuck competing between Microsoft on the one hand, and several Open Source projects on the other (with some of the Open Source projects having serious financial backing).īeing positioned between Microsoft and Open Source generally hasn't been a good spot to be in (indeed, has anyone succeeded here?). There's one interesting thing which has struck me, that I haven't seen any comments on. Sun, Xen and even Microsoft are giving VMWare a run for their money nowadays. Other than that, virtualbox is just better all round.
#Virtualbox 64 bit support free#
That's all the advantages I can think of of the top of my head, the only disadvantage I can see is that vmware supports USB devices whereas the free version of virtualbox doesn't. Virtualbox seems to need less ram than vmware, I only have 1GB of ram in my laptop and swapping was unbearable with firefox and vmware open, yet firefox, virtualbox AND other applications can coexist fine with only limited swapping. Virtualbox has none of these problems, it's rock solid stable and doesn't hog the cpu like vmware does. This manifests itself mostly as skipping audio when audio is playing. It uses quite an intrusive kernel module that creates a lot of latency in the kernel. In my experience vmware crashed about 30% of the times I used it, I even got a total system crash once that needed a hard reset (I think due to problems with compiz?). It's considerably more stable (on linux) than vmware is.
#Virtualbox 64 bit support windows#
It's considerably faster on my system (no hardware virtualisation), windows xp boots in about half the time in virtualbox than in vmware, and applications generally open/run much more snappily. The gtk interface is at least as good as vmware's gui Virtualbox doesn't just give VMware a run for it's money, it's considerably superior in many respects: Especially as I don't use IE or Outlook inside there (I use kmail for email, and firefox and konqueror on Linux for browsing, so no need) either. The ability for something to get in and infect it is pretty much nil. However, I've turned off pretty much all of WindowsXP's protections because it's hiding inside my Linux box, behind a cable-router (another NAT). I mean, if you're paranoid enough to be worried about such issues, you'll have old states which are known-good to roll back to. However, it's fairly easy to solve: turn off the VM, and roll it back to a clean state. Though, like I said, I'm not sure it can see the other guests, just the host. Yes, if your guest gets infected, it's inside the firewall. That all means that your host is acting as a NAT router (by default anyway) and thus all the firewall that the host has will protect the guest(s). It's just that the defaults are all pretty secure.
#Virtualbox 64 bit support how to#
I'm not even really sure how to open up the guests to the public network, though I'm 100% positive that it can be done. I'm not even sure if they see each other, though I've not really tested that. Thus far, my virtual boxes have all been on a private network.
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