Which virtualization software should I choose

Paul Vriens paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 07:43:08 CDT 2009


On 06/11/2009 11:30 AM, Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
> 2009/6/11 Paul Vriens<paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just upgraded to Fedora 11 and (yet again) having issues with VMware
>> Workstation.
>>
>> VMware still doesn't support Fedora (as a host) and I'm tired of
>> fixing/patching things, again and again.
>>
>> I need to run several Windows versions (95 up to Vista for now) for our
>> winetest and I really like the snapshot possibilities of VMware.
>>
>> Suggestions, recommendations?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I'm using VirtualBox. Apart from some problems around d3d/opengl and
> interruptions, it works quiet well. It also manages snapshots and have
> a CLI.
> See w2k-sp4-fr results on winetest. It has passed the test suite once
> (I didn't run latest builds but I will).
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know VMWare Workstation at all, so I can't tell
> you what are the differences.
>
Just installed VirtualBox and it does have snaphots but not so extensive 
as VMware. In VMware I have some W2K snapshots:

- out-of-the-box
- SP1
- SP2
- SP3
- SP4 + Windows Update

I can freely choose which I want to go to. Not so with VirtualBox I'm 
afraid as they are all on top of each other.

(I guess for now I keep my other, F10, box around).

-- 
Cheers,

Paul.



More information about the wine-devel mailing list