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Virtual PC 2007 vs VirtualBox vs VMWare Server/Workstation

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i think one of the biggest selling points of workstation is it's ability to take on the fly snapshots.
great for development work, or for server administration - make a change and if it breaks something, just revert back to the snapshot.

server/esx (bare-metal) is more for production systems, integration with VMi (which is not free). you can get away with running it on a desktop as well.
you can take snapshots as well, but it's not as robust as Workstation's ss manager.
 
I mainly want to use either for older and newer windows OS's and also use it with non windows os's. I currently have been using vpc 2007 sp1 but that is very limiting. Besides the snapshot thing is there anything else that one does better then the other?
 
i think one of the biggest selling points of workstation is it's ability to take on the fly snapshots.
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Server does that too, the only difference is that Workstation can take mulitple snapshots while you only get 1 per VM with Server.
 
Oh so the hardware virtualization and all that would be the same on server as in workstation?
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There's other things too like drag and drop between the host and guest IIRC, But I never use them. Take a look at the VMware product page. I essentially do an install to a VM then forget about it being a VM, I IP it and treat it like another machine on the network.
 
There is an overwhelming amount of options that far surpasses vpc in alot of ways. I take it in your opinion vmware is better?
 
Go ahead and try virtualbox. Its easy to use and will do everything you need it to do just fine. I ditched vmware products for it because server is user-unfriendly overkill, player is crippled and workstation costs money (only ever used it during the trial period and liked it, but...).

You got nothing to lose by trying for yourself.
 
I use vpc at home with Windows 2000. I use it as a work machine to remote into my work stuff because I did not want to install cisco vpn on vista. I use vmware at work, its great for a lot fo stuff, but for people just getting started, vpn or virtualbox then upgrade to vmware.
 
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