VirtualBox beats Parallels and VMWare

I'd like to hear about this. I haven't had a chance to load Windows OS on either bootcamp or any of the virtual applications (VMWare/Parallels/etc.). It's not like I really had the need to although I'm still porting Windows applications over to MAC.

 

VirtualBox doesn't support Aero if you ever install Windows 7. I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac and VirtualBox on my work PC. VMWare doesn't cause my fans to go crazy unless I'm actually doing something cpu intensive in the VM.

 

The only problem that I have with Virtual Box is that you can't use the partition that you have Windows on as the virtual machine. It has to create a virtual drive to install the OS on. If you're like me, and have a Bootcamp partition for gaming and a few business apps; you can't use that for both with Virtual Box. With Virtual Box you'd have to have two different installs, one for the OS with the business apps (running on a virtual partition) and then a Bootcamp partition. This means you're using up twice the amount of space for the OS, and on a laptop, that could be a lot of space. Also licensing of Windows can be an issue because you're not actually running the same partition, now you are running two separate copies.

 

Yes it can. Read the advanced section of the manual. There are vboxmanage commands to import your bootcamp partition.

 

I have had no issues with so-called "bloat" with VMware Fusion. Fusion 3.0.0 was not as fast as previous versions, but came darn close when OS X 10.6.2 was released. Fusion 3.0.1 has been a game-changer for me. It resumes FAST and Aero performance under Windows 7 is superb. All the big modern OS's are supported under Fusion so I don't know what you found that was better supported under VirtualBox. Linux, BSD, OS X server, and most versions of Windows are all fully supported under Fusion 3, and 2 for that matter.

 

Last time I checked it specifically said it couldn't. Maybe updated since then.... I'll look into it again.

 

Can you explain or point me to the instructions. I have seen multiple people claim this can be done, and they say see the advanced section...but I do not see where it says this can be done either.

A step by step write up would be nice. Or at least a section number of the manual that will direct me.

Thanks

 

First hit seems to have some relevant information...

http://www.google.ca/search?q=virtu...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a