VMware vs Virtualbox: Who wins?

>>62071314
VMware but Virtualbox is good enough

>>62071358
/thread

>>62071358
Why does VMware come out on top?

>>62071314
KVM.

>>62071410
Proprietary software are just better.

>>62071410
It has more features and in my experience is more stable

>>62071314
KVM/Qemu

>>62071410
Well it is a type 1 hypervisor for starters. Does Virtualbox have anything like vSAN or NSX or even just vDS? No.

>>62071358
/thread

VMware for big labs and environments. For small home labs virtual box is great, it has supperior disk performance and it is free.

>>62071668
>For small home labs virtual box is great, it has supperior disk performance and it is free.
lol no. VMware has both PVSCSI and NVMe disk controllers for VMs, Virtualbox can only emulate a LSI chip.

>>62071560
Last time I tried to use VMware free (Vmware player?) It didn't even allow snapshots. At that time it was like Virtualbox was a full product and VMWare player (free) was the watered down version of a full product.

>>62071697
VMware Player is the free watered down version. You should be using vSphere.

>>62071581
Wtf are you talking about? vmware isn't a product. It's not a Type 1. It's a brand name.

It's like saying "Microsoft is a great OS". It makes no fucking sense.

vSphere or ESXi are vmware Type 1 hypervisors. Workstation or Player or Fusion or whatever are it's Type 2 offerings.

>>62071800
No one cares about or uses workstation or player, they're essentially dead products, they dont support PVSCSI, NVMe, VMXNET3 or pretty much any feature VMware has added in the past 5+ years.

Now stay monumentally autistic

>>62071726
ahh so vSphere is like an installable OS, and it's free?

>>62071838
>>62071726
>vSphere

vSphere is for servers you fucking retards.

>>62071697
who could say a software that can only run virtual machines has less features than one that can create and manage them, right?

>>62071838
You're not wrong anon, they are definitely dead or dying, but vmware still isn't a product - it's still a brand.

>>62072035
Linus cucktips seems to think it is for gaming PCs though anon

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>>62071990
You can find a keygen for it easily

>>62072035
I'm sorry you're too poor to have servers at home

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>>62072166
>implying anyone was talking about servers in the first place

>>62072180
This thread is about virtualization products - vmware vs virtualbox

>>62071314
VMWare workstation pro > VirtualBox

>>62071314
>>62071487
>>62071575
Virtualbox can use KVM as the hypervisor.

VirtualBox wins because it suits my needs for Windows 7 and Windows 10, as well as various Linux distros, and is free.

But I've found older operating systems like Windows 98 work much better in VMWare.

>>62072513
Red Hat > Oracle
Use virt-manager with Qemu and KVM instead of Virtualbox

>>62071314
gnome-boxes

:D :D
:D

also your sound wont work.

>>62071314
vmware player sucks donkey dick

Vbox is fine all around

workstation is good

esx is based

xen is godly

docker is for weebs

>>62071314
vmware beats virtualbox on windows
virtualbox beats vmware on linux due to not being able to even boot properly
kvm+qemu beats virtualbox on linux

>>62075154
Why do you have to overcomplicate things?
I've used both and virtualbox is better for desktop usage. It's a pain in the ass to get bidirectional drag and drop, bidirectional copy paste and especially shared folders working in qemu.

>>62071410
2gb video vs 128mb video

>>62071314
Rev up that KVM & OVMF cause I need one fast as fuck machine

>>62072166
>[email protected]
lol

>>62071838
If someone is asking for a comparison between "VMWare" and Virtual box, they are obviously asking about VMWare workstation, not vsphere or esxi you mong.
Why would anyone compare vsphere to virtual box? It's like comparing a sedan to a private jet.

>>62072166
I would like to do the same.
But I suppose that you're using two computers(vsphere server+client)?
And what are you using in the VMs?

>>62071314
qemu

>>62071536
Because Virtualbox is open source?

> Kvm
> qemu

Can't share files between guest and host. Kind of defeats the purpose since Office is the only reason to use Windows unless you're a gay gaymer.

>>62071314
vmware is made by people paid to make it as good as possible

virtualbox is a weekend project by communists

>>62071358
Completely the other way around, boyo

>>62076885
This anon gets it

In terms of performance I really don't know, but VirtualBox has a baller CLI (VBoxManage) which is really neat and worth taking a look at. I'm not sure VMware Workstation/Player/Fusion/etc. has the same.

>>62071314
VirtualBox if we're staying strictly between the two on Linux, because VMWare on Linux is shit and is not intuitive to install in any way. On Windows, VMWare Workstation fucks VBox up its ass in terms of stability and features. VBox flat out fails to work half the time on Windows, especially with shit like passing through USB flash drives.

However, since we are speaking about Linux, you should be using neither VBox or VMWare; you should be using QEMU+KVM.

Anyone have resources to learn and use VMWare? What do you recommend to practice using it and what are common setups for small to medium sized IT business?

Qemu+KVM

>>62071410
virtualbox is limited to 128mb video, which is crap for everybody not just for gaymers

many others handy and stability features

>>62071410
The developers get paid to work on it. SUN used to pay salary for their projects but Oracle more than likely cut the budget to near 0 for VB.

>>62077314
VMware isn't

>>62071358
This. But VMware is God like.

>>62071487
Not if you're using Ryzen.

>>62075154
Red Hat is a cancer.

I find VirtualBox more user friendly but it completely sucks with AMD stuff. My dual core i7 can run Vbox better than an FX 8350

Used VMware workstation for malware analysis for a little over a year. Shit was great, didn't crash, and was easy to use. Tried to use Virtualbox a few times at home and hated it in comparison. Really depends on who is buying and your need. One is a good hobbyist solution and the other is for real work

>>62071314

Both craps

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Nvidia does not allow GPU access to guest OS on consumer hardware. You have you pay for Quadro.

>>62084031
>Nvidia does not allow GPU access to guest OS on consumer hardware.
It does you tard. Just add hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = false to the VMX file on ESXi

>>62084085
fug

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>>62084031
You either DELETE THIS or your nVidia GeForce Experience account right will be revoked.

>>62084085
and you will get worse overall performance because you are not telling the guest os it resides inside a vm
gud luck with that

>>62084170
lol no, its makes no difference at all

>>62071314
qemu or xen

>>62077678
>office
Spotted the wagecuck. If you did anything of importance you would be using TeX or something.

>>62084208
>lol no
jensen pls...

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>>62084251
stay salty that you cant do pic related

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>>62084115
Oh! i have silly images too, i'm gonna post it even if it's not related to the discussion at all.

>>62077694
>Fortune 500 Company
>Communist
pick one

>>62083957
This. Proxmox is better.