VMware VS VirtualBox

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> necessary. Unfortunately when I tried this for temporary testing purposes, I
> found that can copy a Lenny VM to my old laptop and it fires up and runs just
> fine, but the XP VM proclaims that the hardware has been changed and refuses
> to run.
>
> I thought part of the purpose of having a VM was to hide the hardware from the
> VMs to enable moving them from physical machine to physical machine
>

I'm not sure how VirtualBox does its hardware configuration for its machines.

This *should* work with VMWare, as each VM is configured with a
"hardware version", which to my understanding is what allows
portability of these VMs.


-- 
Glen Barber