Clayton pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
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.
I can confirm that you can run VMware images in Vbox. I am doing so with two different images. If you want to make the change to Vbox make sure you remove the VMware tools first. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org