Well I’ve been running Virtual Box for a month now, and being that I’ve used VMWare for 3 years prior. I feel I’ve experience both well enough to give a over view of both. I have used them in both windows and linux (Fedora) host environments so I’m planning on giving pro’s and con’s in both environments.
VBox (first pro’s then con’s)
- GUI very easy to understand and use
- Shared folders
- Very easy to install on both Windows and Linux (simple driver rebuild after kernel updates)
- Seamless mode (very impressive a must try)
- Hard to run as service
- Seamless Mode not working well on windows 7 hosts or guests
VMWare (first pro’s then con’s)
- Runs as a service
- Web interface for console admin on any machine (on 2.X)
- Easy to install on windows
- Impossible to install of Linux (when not in supported list) and keep running (when kernel changes are made)
What would I recommend? VBox for all linux’s users, end of story, it’s just too hard to install and keep it working. Although having a web interface would be awesome for that headless server. As for windows if it’s a server VMWare but for a workstation VBox.
