Real men use KVM.

Phil said

''VirtualBox is a toy and no one is their right mind would use it for anything other playing around with. I use vmware in a production environment and it performs exactly as it should.''

WHAT ?????? You've obviously never even bothered using VBox or are wired with the preconception that something open source and free can't be as good as something you have paid for (frankly, its an absurd reasoning that companies love, they can just up the price and then people somehow think the product must be better). This is completely ludicrous. I have used VBox for years running programs that would probably freeze your ''production environment'' computer in its native OS.

Just because you don't know how to use it doesn't make it a toy... In fact, if you do a little research, you'll find out that VBox hogs less processing power than vmware.

I to have used VirtualBox on Windows, and now Mac, and I have used it
on Windows for the better part of this year, not one time has VirtualBox
messed up or crashed, and at least to me VirtualBox seams slightly faster.

When it comes down to every day use, I use Parallels rather than VirtualBox,
there is nothing wrong with VirtualBox, it just does not integrate well into
Mac OS X, however there are times I prefer the simple taskbar of VirtualBox
over Parallels.

I have both Installed, each using there own Virtual Machines, under Mac OS X,
and it works good for me.

Don't know what you are talking about...

I've been using VirtualBox heavily for slightly more than a year in two machines (A mac running a virtual machine with win XP, and a PC running a virtual machine with Ubuntu). I haven't had a single crash in all this time, and everything has worked like a charm...

"The best application does not require support at all. You buy the application not to pay with support."

When you create the perfect product, one that can be understood and used universaly without one single doubt, just let me know! Until then, besides product inherent quality, I'll keep thinking about quality produt support as a very important item, worth of payment.
Me and about every other companies, except yours, probably. Moron.

The best application does not require support at all. You buy the application not to pay with support.

The support from VMWare was much better, than the one from Parallels. When I had an issue with Fusion, a real person called me up and offered useful help.

When I had to contact Parallels, I had to suffer from an automated ticketing system, slow replies, and a less friendly approach.

Both products can get the job done, but I will use Fusion because of the superior support from VMWare.

Vmware player is free and can create vm's as well.
VirtualBox is a toy and no one is their right mind would use it for anything other playing around with. I use vmware in a production environment and it performs exactly as it should.

I use virtuabox on the Mac; its OK for £0 for hosting WinXP or linux images.

The big niggle is that the copy/paste shortcuts are the windows ones: Control-C, Control-V; which gets really confusing as they are different in all the native apps. Some keystroke swapping would be nice here.

VirtualBox is easily the better solution on both windows and linux hosts. I have never tried it on OS-X but Id be surprised if it was any worse.

Best part of all, virtualbox is totally free.

VirtualBox... is all you need to make your computer crash and bleed. :-)

is all you need

The article wrote about Fusion 3, "There are just two display modes, full screen and unity...," which is wrong. Like Parallels, Fusion offers a "single window" mode, within which the VM appears in a self contained window on the mac desktop, complete with task bar, etc.