Sunday, January 17, 2010

VMWare Workstation way better than VirtualBox

I have been using VirtualBox for last few months, but I always felt it was missing the finishing touch. So finally, I decided to try VMware Workstation. I immediately felt at home.

Here is something which I noticed immediately:
  1. VMware Unity is far better than VirtualBox Seamless. Unity actually integrates windows in the guest and host OS pretty well - a single task bar for all windows and alt+tab switches between all the windows. Not with VirtualBox. VirtualBox Seamless seems to be a feature added for the sake of list of features, but is actually useless while VMware's Unity is actually useful.
  2. VMware supports 3D graphics. Aero works in the guest OS. In fact, Windows Experience Index of the host OS and guest OS is very close.
  3. Snapshot and clone management is pretty slick in VMware .
  4. My initial experience is that VMware is much faster than VirtualBox - starting, stopping, running.
  5. Virtual network management is quite good in VMware .
  6. Single window for all VMs in VMware.
  7. VMware stores everything about one VM in a single directory which is very convenient for backing up or copying to another machine.
  8. VMware has a cool feature called "Easy Install" where it will install the guest OS unattended - another very useful feature.

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