With VMWare, you'd need to download the free VMWare Workstation Trial to extract the ISO images of the VMWare tools from its archive.Īnd Why would you prefer VMWare Player over VirtualBox? The entire process will be quick and fast and painless. You can install the speed up tools very easily, without having to find them somewhere else.All things you cannot control using VMWare Player: you'd have to edit your Virtual Machine manually. You have total control over your USB devices, ISO images, sound, and so on.Your virtual machines can output sound through OSS, ALSA, or PulseAudio - whereas VMWare can only output via OSS. If you want a GUI to manage several Virtual Machines you need to buy VmWareworkstation 6.X, which is also proprietary, and not free. To create a Virtual Machine from scratch you need the latest version of VMWare Player, or you can download and install VMWare Server (also a free but proprietary software).

It can create and handle any Virtual Machine or Virtual Disc with no problem.So, why is VirtualBox better than VMWare Player for you? In this Guide I assume you know about Virtualizers and are actually using VMware Player, which is a free tool but not OpenSource Software. (Qemu's one is KQemu and it is really hard to get working. The speed up tool is VERY simple to install, the simplest around.Using it you can switch between iso disc images quickly.It can handle USB devices simply (non-OSE version only).It has an intuitive Graphical Interface.A reasonable alternative! It is much more convenient than QEmu (Another OpenSource Virtualizer) for several reasons: VirtualBox is a free and OpenSource alternative to VMWare. Running and setting up your new Virtual Machine.

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