{"id":55,"date":"2010-02-18T19:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanchbury.id.au\/wp\/?p=55"},"modified":"2010-09-03T19:46:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T11:46:33","slug":"difference-between-vbox-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Difference between Vbox &#038; VMWare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;ve been running Virtual Box for a month now, and being that  I&#8217;ve used VMWare for 3 years prior.\u00a0 I feel I&#8217;ve experience both well  enough to give a over view of both.\u00a0 I have used them in both windows  and linux (Fedora) host environments so I&#8217;m planning on giving pro&#8217;s and  con&#8217;s in both environments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VBox <\/strong>(first pro&#8217;s then con&#8217;s)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GUI very easy to understand and use<\/li>\n<li>Shared folders<\/li>\n<li>Very easy to install on both Windows and Linux (simple driver rebuild after kernel updates)<\/li>\n<li>Seamless mode (very impressive a must try)<br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hard to run as service<\/li>\n<li>Seamless Mode not working well on windows 7 hosts or guests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>VMWare <\/strong>(first pro&#8217;s then con&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Runs as a service<\/li>\n<li>Web interface for console admin on any machine (on 2.X)<\/li>\n<li>Easy to install on windows<br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Impossible to install of Linux (when not in supported list) and keep running (when kernel changes are made)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What would I recommend? VBox for all linux&#8217;s users, end of story,  it&#8217;s just too hard to install and keep it working.\u00a0 Although having a  web interface would be awesome for that headless server.\u00a0 As for windows  if it&#8217;s a server VMWare but for a workstation VBox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;ve been running Virtual Box for a month now, and being that I&#8217;ve used VMWare for 3 years prior.\u00a0 I feel I&#8217;ve experience both well enough to give a over view of both.\u00a0 I have used them in both windows and linux (Fedora) host environments so I&#8217;m planning on giving pro&#8217;s and con&#8217;s in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/?p=55\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7tC7P-T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanchbury.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}