Hypervisor Types of VMware’s and Oracle’s Virtualization Products If you are comparing VirtualBox to VMware, this blog post can help you to select the virtualization solution that meets your needs best. The choice between VMware and Oracle VirtualBox virtualization solutions may be difficult. Some of these features are available in both platforms, but there are also some features that are unique to each platform. Both platforms are fast, reliable, and include a wide array of interesting features. Oracle provides VirtualBox as a hypervisor for running virtual machines (VMs) while VMware provides multiple products for running VMs in different use cases. Oracle and VMware are leaders in providing virtualization solutions in the modern IT industry. I haven't noticed any difference in stability or performance between the two for interactive development work.By Michael Bose VMware vs. I primarily virtualize Linux atop Windows, and Windows XP atop Windows (though now this is built into Windows 8) in a desktop environment, and occasionally OSX atop Linux or Windows. I switched a few years ago from VMWare to VirtualBox. Will restrict your ability to use their product based on third-party requests.Closed source - you're at the mercy of their engineers for bug fixes and features.Has well-established third-party development and distribution programs.Well established and respected in the enterprise market.The large company that backs VB is Oracle, which isn't terribly FOSS friendly.GPL means you need to be careful about what you add to the source if you redistribute VB.
Oracle can't issue a commercial license for anything other than the USB drivers.You get the complete VirtualBox for free.
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