[TriLUG] VirtualBox Problems

[Ken MacKenzie]

Virtualbox's ease of install and setup as well as its ability to make
instances portable is why I generally opt for it as well.  However VMware
does offer performance level advantages need to be considered.  The biggest
difference between the two is VMWare is Hypervisor level 1 and VBox is
level 2.  In certain applications the bare metal virtualization will be
preferred and offer a performance advantage.  In my case that advantage
does not out weigh the perks of VBox at this point.

Ken


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:41 AM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
>
> > I've heard Virtualbox is easier to install and use than KVM. Is that
> > not true anymore?
>
>
> I use VBox on Windows platforms all the time to run Virtual Linux servers.
> I have had no problems what so ever with resources or performance and I
> have been running servers for years this way. The ease is unbeatable. I
> cannot compare KVM to much, because I have only played around with it, but
> the free version of VMWare is quite amazing. Despite that you do not have
> the full interface, with a little investigation, there is alot of things
> that you can do from the command line to make up for the interface
> deficiency. Having said that if you plan on doing anything serious with
> VMWare, just buy it, the cost is not too bad. We have hundreds of servers
> running on VMWare with highly available and geographically separated
> configurations. I do not manage the VMWare system, but it is amazing.
>
> John Vaughters
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