on Fri Sep 26 2008, "Emil Dotchevski" <emil-AT-revergestudios.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:17 PM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
For multicore VMs, you can get VMWare Server free from http://www.vmware.com/download/server/> As the industry's leading VM technology, you can expect support for most of the same things that VirtualBox supports. Snapshots, for sure.
I used to have VMWare but I find VirtualBox easier to use; overall it feels simpler and lighter.
Maybe, but if you need multicore support, you need something else.
Also, maybe they've fixed this but the last time I tried VMWare, it would annoyingly restrain the mouse within the boundaries of the virtual machine window and would require you to hit a keyboard key to free it. With VirtualBox, when you cross the window boundary the mouse cursor changes, but other than that it looks and feels like a native Windows window.
That's been fixed with VMWare "forever." You may need to install VMWare Tools on the guest. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com