VMware "just works", hosting anything I've tried.
Yah... I've even managed to futz around and get OSX working in VMWare :-) Wasn't easy nor nice, but it did work... kinda.
My experience with VirtualBox reminded me of my experience with WINE. It also felt like Xen. It probably works great, if your willing to fiddle and take the time to learn all about how VB / Xen works. I'm not. I need to develop, test, and run apps; I just don't care at all about how the software in question makes that happen. On occasion I've gone through VB's wizard to create a VM and subsequently had it fall down with some error message. And then I've deleted the VB VM and used VMware.
That's how it used to be... in my experience, it's not like that anymore. I simply fire up VBox and step through the wizard and install my guest OS - everything just works (for I throw at it anyway). Any tinkering I do is the same kind of tinkering I do in VMWare as well.. like fine tuning the Guest hardware profile (using the GUI of course)... changing the amount of RAM avail to the guest, bumping up the video RAM.. that sort of thing. i haven't had VBox fall down with any errors on installing a guest in a very long time. One noticeable diff between the two is the easy mode install in VMWare if you're installing a Windows OS.. that's the bit where you enter the license key etc and VMWare auto fills in the bits and then installs VMWare Tools withot you needing to do anything. Installing in VBox is almost as easy, but you have to enter license keys in the appropriate spots and then run the VBox Tools installer yourself. It's a convenience feature... In VBox I currently have... WinXP, Win7, OpenSolaris, OpenSUSE 10.3, 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2, Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, and Kubuntu 9.10, and a few other misc Linux distros I'm testing/trying. The Win and OpenSUSE installs are used on at least a weekly basis, primarily for my job. What I have seen with VBox is if/when I've used the OSE build from the repos, then the tweaking took on a new level of annoyance... but also that was many versions ago, so things are likely to have changed... that said, the OSE build from the repos is missing functionality (specifically RDP and USB support). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org