Virtualbox vs vmware fusion for free#
Virtualbox vs vmware fusion software#

Multiple virtual monitors belonging to a VM can be displayed in multiple windows of host machine, or via multiple physical monitors.

Supports multiple virtual monitors for a guest VM.

Supports multiple types of disk image (e.g., vdi, vmdk, vhd, hdd, qed, qcow).

Offers built-in VM snapshot, and supports multiple snapshots.

Offers built-in GUI-based wizard for cloning a VM.

Very limited command-line interface for managing VMs (e.g., VIX API).

Less frequently updated (i.e., yearly major version upgrade).

Cannot be installed on OS X and Solaris host operating systems.

Does not support multiple virtual monitors for a guest VM.

Supports only single disk image type (i.e., vmdk).

Bridged networking does not work with some WiFi network adapters, in which case VMs with bridged network are not reachable from the host machine's WiFi network.

Support for USB 3.0 (available for Windows 8 guest VMs).

All major hypervisors such as KVM, vSphere, Xen, XenServer are supported. That is, you can instantiate guest hypervisors which require hardware-assisted virtualization.

Supports nested hardware-assisted virtualization.

Can add as many as ten virtual network adapters (or vNICs) to a guest VM, while VirtualBox can add only up to eight vNICs to each VM.

Offers a built-in DHCP service shared by all NATed VMs.

Creates on host machine a virtual switch dedicated for NAT networking, which allows NATed guest virtual machines (VMs) to be reachable from one another, as well as from host machine through the virtual switch.

The comparison is done for VMware Player 5 and VirtualBox 4.2.12. In this post, I will highlight advantages and disadvantages of VMware Player and VirtualBox in terms of their features. Which one to choose all boils down to your need and requirements. When you compare VMware Player and VirtualBox side by side, it is hard to say which one is better, as each one has its own pros and cons, compared to the other.

Virtualbox vs vmware fusion for free#

VirtualBox is released for free under the terms of the GPL version 2, and additional proprietary components are available under a proprietary PUEL license. VMware Player is free for personal non-commercial use, and available for commercial use if VMware Fusion commercial license is purchased.

Virtualbox vs vmware fusion software#

VMware Player and VirtualBox are the two most popular virtualization software packages for x86 processor architecture.