Greetings Earthlings,
In a recent unrelated post, viking60 was recommending VirtualBox as a desktop virtualization solution. I have actually been using VirtualBox for some time now but have used others in the past. I was wondering if anyone here had gone through the process of testing out available desktop virtualization software lately and if they still thought that VirtualBox was the best available. I do recall that the ability to drag and drop between host and guest was a feature I really missed when I left VMWare Workstation for VirtualBox, but I guess I have since become accustomed to just using a shared drive (local or network) as a transition area instead. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Desktop Virtualization
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Re: Desktop Virtualization
Greeting Martian 
I have actually not tried Vmware so it is lack of experience here.
Virtualbox is in the repos and easy to install while vmware can be somewhat more challenging.
It can be downloaded and installed from the Vmware site but I never am sure of the trial/license stuff for VMware Workstation Pro. And I am not even sure how it differs from Vmware player
I know those Vmware guys think of Vmware almost as an OS that can be used to load other OS's. Some servers - Like Dell - come with VMware and it lets you pick howto install Windows or Linux (on the Dell meeting I attended it was all about Windows).
I have actually not tried Vmware so it is lack of experience here.
Virtualbox is in the repos and easy to install while vmware can be somewhat more challenging.
It can be downloaded and installed from the Vmware site but I never am sure of the trial/license stuff for VMware Workstation Pro. And I am not even sure how it differs from Vmware player
I know those Vmware guys think of Vmware almost as an OS that can be used to load other OS's. Some servers - Like Dell - come with VMware and it lets you pick howto install Windows or Linux (on the Dell meeting I attended it was all about Windows).
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