[Cialug] Virtualbox Newbie

[Stephen Dunn]

Why would you not use VMware for production?


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:27 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 May 2013, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>
> > Is VirtualBox suitable for production workloads or is it more like a
> > tool for testing and prototyping and running a second OS when necessary?
> >
> IME, if you want good performance from a Windoze VM (XP or Win7 tested),
> use VB - performance is not the best under Xen or KVM.
>
> It also has some tools that are not straightforward with other systems -
> e.g. shared USB and host filesystems.
>
> The only issues we have had with VB are:
>
> 1) It is a user oriented application, so any VMs are linked to the base
> user, whereas something like Xen is system oriented.
>
> 2) When you want to upgrade anything, watch out! VB is pretty 'fragile'
> when updating, especially if you use some of the other available tools
> like vboxtool (which gives you command line machine control).
>
>         Lee
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