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Just curious what you guys like best between the two. I've played with both now, and one thing I nocticed is that with VmWare you can assign 2 CPUs to a vm, and with Virtual Box only 1. Are there anymore advantages/disadvantages with one or the other?
 
Very popular thread here, Buikman!

VMWare, is a very mature product and not hard to use. It has been very well tested and would probably be my recommendation for VMs in a "Production Environment".
It comes in all sizes, shapes, and colors. :mwink:

Personally, I love Virtualbox. But that's for "messing around" with different Desktop OSes and such. Virtualbox does have a commercial version, but I have not used it.

If setting up something acting as a Server, need virtual SMP, or virtual clusters, etc, I use Xen.
Xen, however is a completely different beast. Xen runs extremely well, but somewhat complicated to setup and requires a custom modified guest OSes due to the paravirtualization.
BTW, I usually run the dom0 on a NetBSD-4 box.
If your interested, here is a site with a bunch of nice custom images, http://jailtime.org
 
That's generally what I'm doing, just messing around with betas and such. I plan on getting one going with Gentoo, which is why I wanted to be able to assign 2 CPUs to it. It helps with all that compiling.
 

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