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How Many Virtualization Programs Are There?

DasFox

DasFox

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How many virtualization programs are there for Windows?

So far all I know of are these:

VirtualBox
VMware

Please comment on their ease of use, dependability, safety, support of hardware etc...

THANKS
 
VirtualBox looks like possibly a nice alternative to WMware...

Parallels looks interesting too...
 
VirtualBox is awesome. It's free, and has a native 64-bit version as well.

It has a few downsides, like the inability to use multiple cores on a VM, but for free software...it's fantastic, and 100% better than VPC 2007.
 
Originally posted by: Pabster
VirtualBox is awesome. It's free, and has a native 64-bit version as well.

It has a few downsides, like the inability to use multiple cores on a VM, but for free software...it's fantastic, and 100% better than VPC 2007.
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I didn't like it on a box I tested it on, brought the system to a crawl, and slow as hell getting the OS installed, VMware smokes it in my book...
 
I use VMWare Workstation 6. I tried VMWare Server 1.03, loved it, and made the mistake of going to 2.0beta from 11/2x/2007; it never worked well, so I had to jump to Workstation 6 (since my disk images were upgraded to a format I believe was incompatible with VMWare Server 1.03 by that point). Not happy about that, but VMWare Workstation 6 does work well and has no issues or little problems that I've found.
 
Don't forget QEMU.
Anyhow, I've found virtualbox to be the fastest, integrates great, and works well.
 
Originally posted by: Fox5
Don't forget QEMU.
Anyhow, I've found virtualbox to be the fastest, integrates great, and works well.
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QEMU for linux might be a great choice, but it's in early development for Windows so I wouldn't use it yet.
 
Originally posted by: Pabster
VirtualBox is awesome. It's free, and has a native 64-bit version as well.

It has a few downsides, like the inability to use multiple cores on a VM, but for free software...it's fantastic, and 100% better than VPC 2007.
Click to expand...

Does it support any form of 3D acceleration?

I use Virtual PC to run a few older games that aren't compatible with XP, and it generally works well for those, but it doesn't have any 3D capabilities at all.
 
Originally posted by: CP5670
Originally posted by: Pabster
VirtualBox is awesome. It's free, and has a native 64-bit version as well.

It has a few downsides, like the inability to use multiple cores on a VM, but for free software...it's fantastic, and 100% better than VPC 2007.
Click to expand...

Does it support any form of 3D acceleration?

I use Virtual PC to run a few older games that aren't compatible with XP, and it generally works well for those, but it doesn't have any 3D capabilities at all.
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Nope.
VirtualPC has a version with some basic 3d support, as does VMWare.

There is an experimental version of QEMU with 3d support as well, but good luck setting that up.
 
There are dozens out there ...
I've used VMware just to mess around with different distros, never anything too serious, but it was extremely easy to set up and it seemed pretty reliable on XP.

My favorite is probably Xen though. It runs on many different platforms and you can use quite a few different host operating systems.
Ease of use, not so good (though once you get it up and running, maintaining it is easy.) I don't have much experience with it, however, it does appear to be reliable.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/
http://www.citrixxenserver.com/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.xen.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen
 
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