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VirtualBox vs VMware
Just over a month ago (maybe it has been longer) I saw an article on Digg about an open source alternative to VMware. I thought I would at least check it out just to see how well VirtualBox performed. I’ve also tried QEMU before and I wasn’t impressed with its speed or getting it configured to be used. VirtualBox performs very well even before you install the guest tools. It is very important to note that VirtualBox clock on the guest machine stayed perfectly in sync with the host. Which I can’t say for VMware Server and Player 1.0.2 since they varied up to 20 minutes before changing it in a Windows XP guest. The speed is near native and a Windows XP installation is faster than if you would have installed it from CD. The reason that probably is because I was using a ISO instead of using the CD. VMware on the other hand in the same situation is noticeably slower by comparison. VMware has always seemed slow for disk operations in both the Player and Server versions.
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