hello, I would like to ask what better to use Virtual Box or Vmware Player ? I would like to use this in home to test for example how new insider Windows 10 works. Regards
VirtualBox is your best bet if you want it to be free. But nothing actually beats Vmware Workstation Pro on Windows. Expensive or not.
Vmware Workstation Pro has more features, but is practically bloated. But if you need something lighter just to emulate an OS, VirtualBox is light and bloatware free.
All mentioned software doesn't emulate an OS, they do virtualize hardware. That's a very important difference. Example for an OS emulator is DOSBox.
I used VMWW for years but now switched to Virtual Box. There was nothing wrong with VMware, but I don't see the point using Workstation for day by day use. I don't miss any features in VB. Vmware has the way better interface but overall I'm pretty satisfied with the switch.
VirtualBox, since version 1.56. You can officially supply custom SLICs. And it's not only free, large parts are actually Open Source. Forks do exist, like MEMU for using Android OS on Windows.
Virtual Box But some antivirus software like comodo doesn't support it and completely disable virtual box for security reasons.. and recommends VMW. It's very strange trough..
Been using VMW for years, but switched to VB, as overall it feels faster (both as application on host OS & guests inside VM) And it is free, and I can easily change hard disk serial number inside the .vbox config
Wasted time trying to get an endoscpe USB camera working on VirtualBox. At the end, I sorted it using the passthrough functionality in VBox guest (basically un-click it from Devices -> USB then click it in Devices -> Webcams). However, it worked flawlessly, first time, on all Windows on VMware Workstation PRO 14.1.. On the other hand, on some computers with non HID TouchPads, I can do 2 finger scrolling on VirtualBox but not on VMware Workstation.
First of all, Virtualbox is product and Vmware is a company. Virtualbox has come from software giant Oracle and Vmware has many products they are more popular in business. Virtualbox is free and Vmware is paid (pro version) Vmware is more polished product like we see any paid product as. Virtualbox is my first choice because of its cost and features. I installed Vmware trail and I grab some key's from one website. I don't know the key is legitimate or not but they work fine.Vmware is performance is better than Oracle Virtualbox
VMware Player gets my vote. It's free, fast and stable. I also prefer it over the bloated workstation version. I do use VirtualBox every now and then, but I've always found it to be slower and buggy. I'll often have issues with USB devices and file transfers.