Re: VMware Workstation

["Dr. Ed Morbius" <dredmorbius@gmail.com>]

on 18:43 Wed 02 Mar, Mathieu Malaterre (mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com) wrote:
> I tried vmware once. When I realized the script needed root power, I stopped.
> 
> I moved to VirtualBox without regret so far. The version in debian
> does not have USB & rdesktop, but that was not on my requirement.
> 
> VirtualBox support most images, but you can always use qemu to convert
> your vmware to virtualbox images.
> 
> Watch out that for 6'bits sytem you need VT-x on Intel, one way to
> know is executing this from a shell:
> 
> $ egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> HTH

Does anyone have actual or apparent performance comparisons between vbox
and VMWare?

Why would one chose one over the other?

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