VMware VS VirtualBox

[Arnaud bourree]

2009/3/16 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>

> Arnaud bourree wrote:
>
> > 2009/3/15 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>
> >
> >> Arnaud bourree wrote:
> >>
> >> > Personaly, I used vmware-server because I don't need often console
> from
> >> > hosted OS
> >>
> >> Could you explain, please?  Whether I have consoles is a function of the
> >> definition of the virtual guest, not whether I'm running it under VMWare
> >> or VirtualBox.
> >
> > For my job I need vmware for virtual server: I used Konsole or FF to
> > interact with.
> > Because my office used Checkpoint-VPN1, I used a Windows VM to connect to
> > my office: I made a tunnel for all needed remote ports and then closed
> > vmware remote console.
> > So I don't need vmware/virtualbox console always open.
>
> So that still doesn't explain why you would therefore prefer vmware -
> virtualbox gives you at least as many options.  I believe what you're
> specifically looking for is, in VirtualBox, "VBoxHeadless" - and I think
> using it is simpler in virtualbox than vmware, but that might just be me...
> --
> derek
>

When I made my choice, virtualbox didn't have headless capability.
Now I knwot that, I will take a try.
Just hope I can migrate vmware disk image to virtualbox one

Arnaud.
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