Welly Wu
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I work for New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey 07102 as a Help Desk and Support Technician and I am a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Science in IT Administration & Security. I have been working with two professors that use Red Hat Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.10, and Scientific Linux 5.5 along with Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 32 bit version. We are deploying Dell Precision T3500 workstations and Dell Latitude E6410 notebook PCs as a part of our ongoing systems upgrade on campus recently.
One of the professors is the associate dean for the college of computing sciences department with whom I have been working closely last week before winter recess. He uses a Dell Precision T3500 workstation with Scientific Linux Release 5.5 and VMWare Workstation 7.1. NJIT has a contract with VMWare as one of its software vendors and he has a licensed copy of it. I have to work with him next week to complete the installation and data migration of his Dell Optiplex desktop PC to his Dell Precision T3500 workstation.
I am in the process of acquiring my own copy of VMWare Workstation 7.1 for Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit through NJIT. I will need to wait for a reply to an e-mail message to the director of technical support at NJIT next week to see if I am eligible to have my own licensed copy or not.
In the meantime, I downloaded and I installed Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.12. I also downloaded and I installed the DVD .ISO images for Fedora 14 KDE and Linux Mint 10 "Julia." For some unknown reason, I cannot get the latest version of Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0.0 to work properly on my computer. It stalls when I try to setup a new virtual machine using the DVD .ISO image file to install either GNU/Linux operating system. There has been a change in ownership between version 3.2.12 and version 4.0.0 with Oracle purchasing VM VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems; consequently, there is a significant revision change to the code base.
I perused the VMWare and Oracle VM VirtualBox website recently. I am still trying to figure out the key differences between these two software applications that are used for virtualization.
What are the key differences between VMWare Workstation 7.1 and Oracle VM VirtualBox?
According to the websites:
VMWare Workstation 7.1 supports Microsoft Windows 7, popular integrated development environments such as Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse, and it can support pipelining, parallelization, and symmetrical multi processing for powerful virtual machines while integrating Advanced Encryption Standard 256 bit cryptologic algorithm for each virtual machine. It also supports hardware 3D acceleration, OpenGL, DirectX 9.0, and VM Sphere cloud integration plus optimizations for Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs.
Oracle VM VirtualBox supports a modular architecture (which is evident with their new version 4.0.0 release), virtual machine descriptions in XML, shared folders, guest additions within virtual machines, virtual USB controllers, remote desktop protocol, and USB over RDP.
Which one is better?
What else am I missing here?
Thank you.
http://www.virtualbox.org/
I work for New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey 07102 as a Help Desk and Support Technician and I am a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Science in IT Administration & Security. I have been working with two professors that use Red Hat Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.10, and Scientific Linux 5.5 along with Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 32 bit version. We are deploying Dell Precision T3500 workstations and Dell Latitude E6410 notebook PCs as a part of our ongoing systems upgrade on campus recently.
One of the professors is the associate dean for the college of computing sciences department with whom I have been working closely last week before winter recess. He uses a Dell Precision T3500 workstation with Scientific Linux Release 5.5 and VMWare Workstation 7.1. NJIT has a contract with VMWare as one of its software vendors and he has a licensed copy of it. I have to work with him next week to complete the installation and data migration of his Dell Optiplex desktop PC to his Dell Precision T3500 workstation.
I am in the process of acquiring my own copy of VMWare Workstation 7.1 for Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit through NJIT. I will need to wait for a reply to an e-mail message to the director of technical support at NJIT next week to see if I am eligible to have my own licensed copy or not.
In the meantime, I downloaded and I installed Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.12. I also downloaded and I installed the DVD .ISO images for Fedora 14 KDE and Linux Mint 10 "Julia." For some unknown reason, I cannot get the latest version of Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0.0 to work properly on my computer. It stalls when I try to setup a new virtual machine using the DVD .ISO image file to install either GNU/Linux operating system. There has been a change in ownership between version 3.2.12 and version 4.0.0 with Oracle purchasing VM VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems; consequently, there is a significant revision change to the code base.
I perused the VMWare and Oracle VM VirtualBox website recently. I am still trying to figure out the key differences between these two software applications that are used for virtualization.
What are the key differences between VMWare Workstation 7.1 and Oracle VM VirtualBox?
According to the websites:
VMWare Workstation 7.1 supports Microsoft Windows 7, popular integrated development environments such as Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse, and it can support pipelining, parallelization, and symmetrical multi processing for powerful virtual machines while integrating Advanced Encryption Standard 256 bit cryptologic algorithm for each virtual machine. It also supports hardware 3D acceleration, OpenGL, DirectX 9.0, and VM Sphere cloud integration plus optimizations for Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs.
Oracle VM VirtualBox supports a modular architecture (which is evident with their new version 4.0.0 release), virtual machine descriptions in XML, shared folders, guest additions within virtual machines, virtual USB controllers, remote desktop protocol, and USB over RDP.
Which one is better?
What else am I missing here?
Thank you.