Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 204.153.155.151]
on May 01, 2008 05:21 PM
My biggest beef with VirtualBox, like you said, is the lack of direct access to the hardware. Which means that there is no real 3D support. From reading on the forums, it seems like the crew that writes it feels that either it is not important enough to try to write a video card emulator, or are incapable of doing so. VMware gets around this by having a video card emulator and 3D support even on the free version.
On the other hand, my biggest beef with VMWare Server, the free version, is that it only supports two USB ports, no matter how many that you actually have installed on your workstation. This was a "show stopper" limitation for me at an organization I worked for. I had virtualized several license servers for mechanical and electronic engineering applications (OrCAD, PCAD, SolidWorks, etc.) and only supporting two USB ports available was a problem considering that three of the five applications required "keys" in the form of USB dongles in order for the license server to function.
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Re: Getting started with Linux virtualization
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 204.153.155.151] on May 01, 2008 05:21 PMOn the other hand, my biggest beef with VMWare Server, the free version, is that it only supports two USB ports, no matter how many that you actually have installed on your workstation. This was a "show stopper" limitation for me at an organization I worked for. I had virtualized several license servers for mechanical and electronic engineering applications (OrCAD, PCAD, SolidWorks, etc.) and only supporting two USB ports available was a problem considering that three of the five applications required "keys" in the form of USB dongles in order for the license server to function.
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