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prairie_dad

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Registered: 2009-12-26

Posts: 18

Re: VirtualBox vs VMware.. which one do you use?

This is perhaps not quite the right board, admins feel free to move to appropriate location (?)...

I cannot get Arch to work quite right in VBox...in particular I cannot get Guest Additions to install completely correctly...the x11 module never gets past "busy," never to "done."  This leads to problems with appearance of Gnome when I go to X...or probably any DE or WM.

Any thoughts?  Happy to post results from various logs if requested.

thanks!

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: VirtualBox vs VMware.. which one do you use?

This is perhaps not quite the right board, admins feel free to move to appropriate location (?)...

I cannot get Arch to work quite right in VBox...in particular I cannot get Guest Additions to install completely correctly...the x11 module never gets past "busy," never to "done."  This leads to problems with appearance of Gnome when I go to X...or probably any DE or WM.

Any thoughts?  Happy to post results from various logs if requested.

thanks!

This isn't the right place for this issue, but I'm (we're) powerless to move individual posts. Start a new a thread in the Workstation category.

linkmaster03

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Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 269

Re: VirtualBox vs VMware.. which one do you use?

I use Virtualbox. It suits my needs perfectly.

Last edited by linkmaster03 (2010-01-04 00:54:10)

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: VirtualBox vs VMware.. which one do you use?

Well since the recent VirtualBox update I haven't been able to get shared folders to work anymore (Windows 7 host). Not sure if its the guest additions or VBox itself with the problem. Everything else is fine though (vboxvideo etc).

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skyfire

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Registered: 2009-12-27

Posts: 6

Re: VirtualBox vs VMware.. which one do you use?

I use VMWare and i'm using Archlinux in VMWare player sometimes when i want to do experiments(read break:P) with it.

schubs

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Registered: 2010-01-02

Posts: 16

Re: VirtualBox vs VMware.. which one do you use?

I use virtualbox to run arch linux on my windows computer.  It works perfectly for me.

iggyst00ge

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Registered: 2008-01-24

Posts: 50

Re: VirtualBox vs VMware.. which one do you use?

VirtualBox is _much_ faster and supports 2D/3D much better (Compiz Fusion and some games works fine)

But the fastest Virtual Machine Solution i know is QEMU/KVM.

If your processor supports VT-x/AMD-v you´re on the win. KVM is maybe not user friendly but it have about 98% of native speed

I need to run Photoshop, Illustrator, Outlook, etc, for work.

I've used Virtualbox for the last couple of years with few problems, but since I'm without my Windows VM due to a VBox bug, I'm wondering if KVM could handle Photoshop and the Adobe Suite.  Always heard KVM was great for running virtual servers, but not so much for desktops.  Is that still the case?

Chris

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From: Mountain View, California

Registered: 2010-05-31

Posts: 484

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Re: VirtualBox vs VMware.. which one do you use?

I liked VB but I can no longer use it. It gives me segfaults randomly while using a VM. I have tried everything including installing other versions etc. It just quit working. I needed it for testing applications I wrote for grad school but now it's dead... arrr~

I don't like VMware because the install process is a pain.