VMware VS VirtualBox

[Nils Kassube]

David Fletcher wrote:
> 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

Not everything is hidden from the guest. It can see at least the real 
CPU. Now if you move your XP VM to a machine with a different CPU, XP 
can see a difference.


Nils