tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13455633.post1951203593070242263..comments2024-02-07T14:17:47.401+01:00Comments on Hakan Biroglu: Switching from VMWare to VirtualBoxAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590396464507309413noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13455633.post-37702853904098510322013-04-21T06:27:52.000+02:002013-04-21T06:27:52.000+02:00Cool thanks - the vmdk merge was something I ran i...Cool thanks - the vmdk merge was something I ran into and hadn't had time to research - your blog post answered the 1 question I had :-)Gareth Robertshttp://garethroberts.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13455633.post-74189134503160130612013-04-22T14:06:49.000+02:002013-04-22T14:06:49.000+02:00I have to second your impression. VMWare Player is...I have to second your impression. VMWare Player is not that good. <br>However, back to 2007, there was the previous tool, VMWare Server, that was rather a very good one. At this time, much better than VBox (afaik, it was not in Oracle basket).<br>Unfortunately, the 2nd version of VMWare Server has changed of technologies (introducing a webserver!), it was terrible (buggy and performance). A right example proof of wrong choices, or how to kill a good product.<br>Since then, it has been decommisioned (I think in 2011), replaced by VMPlayer. It's much like a toy to me. <br>In the meantime VirtualBox was became in Oracle scope and is now probably alone in laptop/desktop virtualization (I mean on top of an OS) to play an important role.<br>Whether VMWare decommisioned VMWare Server, they took an other important decision.<br>That one on server class environment, make a "light" version of a bare-metal hypervisor for free (ESXi vSphere Hypervisor). Again, at this moment Oracle VM was far behind. We have now both of them for free, comparison is obviously subject to controverse and usage.<br>So, what next ? <br><br>Nicolas.Nicolas Gasparottohttp://gasparotto.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13455633.post-91135299817792016612013-06-03T01:30:03.000+02:002013-06-03T01:30:03.000+02:00There is no need to merge the vmdk file. Vbox supp...There is no need to merge the vmdk file. Vbox supports a split vmdk file just fine. It even has the ability to split a single vmdk file into pieces if needed.Mikael Franssonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13455633.post-85427085132547473342013-08-16T16:41:40.000+02:002013-08-16T16:41:40.000+02:00I had a OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 Guest operating ...I had a OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 Guest operating system installed on VMWare machine. I tried to run it on the Oracle VM VirtualBox according to the instructions above. I failed to run it. The startup process stops at console text "Kernel is LP64". A few rows above I see warnings "Unsupported Intel processor found, kext will not load". The same machine runs fine with VMWare player.alonoreply@blogger.com