mrsmith Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Desktop Virtualization Software - What Do You Use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted February 2, 2012 Administrator Share Posted February 2, 2012 Nice poll. :)VirtualBox. Free, opensource, not so big sized. When I started using it, it had more features than any other. Also, I'm used to it and it's interface.True, it does cause BSOD at times when installing a driver during installation (blame ESET, disable it and it will install fine) but that's the only thing I don't like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just1acc Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 VirtualBox, small size, easy install, used to it. Linux support.I had hard time to setup internet connection on VmWare. VirtualBox detect s it automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIEDHED Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 VirtualBox or VMware Player it's already use for test programs insecure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ande Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 VMware is da best ! :duh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avmad Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 No need to settle for VBox when you can use VMWare. Workstation 8 is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioActive Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 You forgot to mention Windows Virtual PC, which is the successor of Microsoft Virtual PC. I use it, it's free and it integrates nicely with Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddyfre Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 VirtualBox with win7 & xp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeMasteR Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 VMWare and VirtualBox, currently XP SP2 in VirtualBox. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurplebeanZ Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Virtual box on windows and parallels on osx. Can't stand VMware - it makes a mess of your system, and the virtual machines just never feel quite right. When I full screen my vbox machine you wouldn't know it's not the native os, but I don't find the same thing with VMware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playar Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 feel good.. Vbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rseiler Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 One thing that annoys me about Vbox is that you can't drag and drop files into the VM, which is a very convenient feature. Virtual PC has it; not sure about Vmware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndoe Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 One thing that annoys me about Vbox is that you can't drag and drop files into the VM, which is a very convenient feature. Virtual PC has it; not sure about Vmware. vmware does allow drag and drop. does anyone here have or use the latest (v6) or parallels, i'd love to get my hands on a copy (hint hint ;)). i've been using vmware but like PurplebeanZ said, it does make a mess out of your system. i'd used the prior version of parallels (v2.x) many years ago but this latest versions seems to be very promising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoneye Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 VB is the best choice , first its 100% free , sec its LIGHTER than all the other , it doesnt hold any stay Resident services when you close it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniac2003 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 VMware Workstation 8 ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knightmare Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 VMware here. I had it crash on me today after I restarted the machine. I uninstalled Acronis from my VM and when I went to restart the VM, it said that VMware Workstation stopped working. Oddly enough, the virtual machine didn't crash, just the workstation. :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreddyME Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others But..A common pirate behavior. I'm with VMware too because it's not-free and expensive. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highend Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 VMware. I tried to use Virtual Box in portable mode but it won't save the settings for the bridged network settings correctly and a vm without any network access is a bit clumsy ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndoe Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 i started using vbox after going through this thread and although i liked the performance and features, i did find missing the same feature rseiler did above, drag and drop b/w host and guest. while you can do a file transfer via share/map it is highly inconvenient. in virtualpc (for xp) the way i get around this limitation is to create a temporary .ISO file with the desired content and mount the .ISO on the guest machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndoe Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Update: I been using vbox since i went thru this thread.My take: It's brilliant, the performance both on the guest and the host is awesome, no extraneous services created and/or loaded. The only drawback is no drag and drop between guest and host OS but it has a pretty nifty workaround a.k.a. shared folders which pretty much makes up for the lack of drag and drop. so out goes vmware. just uninstalled it as i was typing this. i am curious tho, vbox is free and less than 100 MB in size whereas vmware is almost 475 MB and costs money although i neither know nor care how much exactly :Dsomething to think about, isn't it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miroglu Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Virtualbox and vmware both are great desktop virtualization software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacknhotq Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 VMware Workstation 8 very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndoe Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 just to modify/update my vote (and the rationale thereof) vbox was not working well with extended use. the same guest operating system (modded xpmce basically) would install and work sometimes but not other times, vbox woudl crash and close at before the very first setup screen would even show up. switched back to vmware again. happy now :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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