Subj : Re: VMWare Fusion and Workstation now FREE
To   : nelgin
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Nov 23 2024 09:35:19

-=> nelgin wrote to All <=-

 ne> Having never used or seen VM Fusion or Workstation, I assume they're
 ne> similar to something like VirtualBox? If so, what is the advantage of
 ne> using them over said product?

I ran Workstation and Fusion at work on 200 PCs and 1000 Macs, for a
time we needed to run Windows VMs in Macs to support our enterprise
apps. This was around 2010-2015.

Workstation was a much more polished product than Virtualbox when I
compared the two, but being able to migrate VMs from Workstation to ESXi
was pretty nice - as was being able to take live Snapshots. VB didn't do
that at the time; I don't see any option with the new VB I'm running
now.

Workstation and Fusion had unity mode, where you could run VM windowed apps
in your primary environment instead of in a window, which was pretty
nice. On a Mac, you could have Outlook for Windows running alongside
your Mac apps.

(This was before Outlook for Mac was around, there was a program called
Entourage that was pretty poor by comparison to Outlook)

I had problems getting VM Workstation running under Linux, it was too
dependent on linux kernel versions - do an apt upgrade and VM
Workstation would break. Virtualbox didn't have that issue.

Virtualbox does shine in the number of pre-built vms floating around for
download on the net.



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