On 02/12/2011 08:10 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: ...snip...
So, for people in love with VMware, use the open tools.
(or is it the open tools that you couldn't compile??)
Nope - as far as I can tell the open guest tools are fine, although I usually recompile them anyway just to be safe. This was the host end.
I have since found a workaround by searching the openSUSE forum and the VMware Community forum. For about a year, I was using VirtualBox and let my VMware Workstation license stay at 6.5. But towards the end of last year, VMware had a 25% off promotion for the upgrade to 7.1, and I was a little hacked off at Oracle for turning their corporate attorneys and beancounters loose on open source in general and in the specific areas of the open source projects they acquired from Sun - MySQL, Java, VirtualBox and NetBeans.
So I upgraded, and in the process now have something VirtualBox at 4.0.2 *still* doesn't do - capture snapshots and movies of guest machines, which is something I sorely need. I *haven't* done any head-to-head efficiency testing of the two as hosts, though. I'm guessing if you really care about *that*, the horse race is KVM vs. Xen vs. ESX vs. Microsoft's gizmo, not VMware Workstation vs. VirtualBox. ;-)
Hmmm... why not use a desktop or window capture tool? I use the *recordMyDesktop programs... seem to work fine. Just an option. Of course, I'm using Linux as my host... but the Windows fanboys seem to say that their desktop capture tools are "superior" (?)... you'd think that might work for you as well even if you have a Windows host OS. I use *recordMyDesktop to record at 1920x1200 all of the time... and it captures at a high enough rate. I've been a VMware user since the early betas... and I used to play "the forever upgrade" game... but it's just so expensive. If possible, save the upgrade costs, buy a decent multicore system, run Xen (or other). I do agree that things like Xen are the way to go. My main virt machine at home is the Xen 4.0 that comes with SLES11 SP1. Works great. With regards to VirtualBox... you never know. Oracle does indeed seem to be a "killer" of FOSS (which isn't really possible with the GPL btw). So the FOSS version of VBox is always an option... even if Oracle gets ugly (uglier). If on the cheap, I'd try FOSS VBox Windows guests with a Linux based window capture tool. See if that works ok for you (of course, you've already bought VMware... so maybe that comment is for somebody else). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org