[Cialug] Which network adapter?

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On Tuesday November 18 2008 09:48, John Lengeling wrote:
>How does vbox performance compare to VMware Player performance?

I've only used VMware Workstation, not Player. To echo previous posters, 
VirtualBox and VMware Workstation seem very comparable.

I like VirtualBox because it is open source and thus cannot be taken 
away either by cancelling the product or pricing it out of my budget. 
But i actually have installed the closed version because it has better 
USB and SATA support that i intend to use. Supposedly the extra 
features in the proprietary version will slowly migrate over to the 
open version, but if not and the proprietary version ever goes away, 
migrating to the open version should be trivial (just reuse existing 
virtual machines but without the extra features).

I've only tried VMware Workstation and VirtualBox on Linux. They both 
have versions for other host operating systems, but i'm not sure if one 
or the other is better on other hosts.

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