There is no Open Source VMware; there are free VMware products. But Workstations isn't that expensive and very much worth paying for [compared to the free products].
Workstation is $190US per license. That is somewhat expensive for a home user... not so bad for a company to pay though I suppose. I've used and do use both... and overall, I personally prefer VirtualBox - not because it's free, but because I find that for my purposes it works better or the same. If it works the same, free wins out over $190 any day. Historically, VMWare worked a lot better with USB devices, and supported more legacy OSes, but, USB is working fine for me now in VBox and the supported OSes covers all that I have/use. As well, VBox can open/boot VMWare images... so any older VMWare VMDK images I have are still usable/accessible (at least in my experience). VMWare has some nice features for running an managing multiple VMs on the server side, and the VMWare Player is nice - something VBox does not have. I don't miss the Player though when I'm using VBox. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org