Virtual Box or VMWare?

I have a MacBook Pro 15" and I need either Virtual Box or VMWare for college to be able to complete one of my computer science classes.
Which one would you guys recommend? I'm getting a lot of mixed results whenever I read reviews.
Thanks!

For me, I found Parallels to be a better fit than VMWare Fusion. Since Virtual Box is free, and VMWare & Parallels both offer free trials, why not just try them all out and see which one works better for you?

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Can CUCM 8.5 version be installed on a DL 380 G5 server in Virtual environment (Vmware Esxi 4.0 or 4.1)? Or does it have to be only installed in UCS boxes for VMware?

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1. If the installation is possible for the Vmware instance on a DL 380 G5/G6 server , will that be supported by Cisco ?
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ISight Camera on Windows Xp as a virtual machine in Virtual Box

I'm using Virtual Box to run Windows Xp in my MacBook Pro. I have been trying to have a video conference through Messenger but iSight is not being recognized. I've gone through the process of installing the Guest Additions and there I've selected iSight. But when windows try to install the new detected hardware, does not find any driver for iSight. Has anyone been lucky to make iSight Camera work properly under this environment? I've gone to Virtual Box forum and I haven't found any positive answer.
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You’re absolutely right. I installed the Skype program in Mac OS X directly and not in any virtual machine. I forgot to say this. I’m using Virtual Box of Sun Microsystems as the virtualization software and not Parallels neither VMware Fusion neither BootCamp. I went to Virtual Box forums and there is not solution for the moment to make it work the iSight Camera because there is not a driver. Anyway I tried to get the driver from the installation disk that you told me but the Windows virtual machine does not catch the DVD by any means, I tried in different ways and not one worked. Besides I read that the drivers that comes with the installation DVD only works for Boot Camp. I’m not at all an expert on this.
In spite that now I can have a videoconference with my Windows’ friends and relatives, I’m still waiting for the proper solution to the iSight driver in Virtual Box.
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Need help installing Virtual box Windows VM's

I am installing virtual box on wife's mac.   I got the instructions here: http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/04/internet-explorer-for-mac-ie7-ie8-ie-9-free/
I did it previously and it all worked well. Recently the windows session license expired so I reinstalled that portion and it worked for about a week. Then the Virtual box program just stopped working.   So I uninstalled the virtual box and am attempting to reinstall all components.
First step is install Virtual box from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads   This went ok andvirtual box runs but there are no VM's.
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Script is accessed by copyinf this command into terminal:
curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash
This is the error I get.   It seems there is a file that already exists but I'm stumped as to what to do.
Last login: Fri Mar 28 09:06:48 on ttys000 ROSANNEs-MacBook-Air:~ rosannemcginn$ curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash Checking for VirtualBox Checking for Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Pack no. 0:   Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Building IE6 VM
Checking for existing OVA at /Users/rosannemcginn/.ievms/IE6 - WinXP.ova Checking for existing IE6 - WinXP VM Creating IE6 - WinXP VM (disk: /Users/rosannemcginn/.ievms/IE6 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk) 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Interpreting /Users/rosannemcginn/.ievms/IE6 - WinXP.ova...
OK.
Disks: vmdisk1   136260878336      -1      http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized     IE6 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk -1    -1
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0: Suggested OS type: "WindowsXP"
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1: VM name specified with --vmname: "IE6 - WinXP"
2: Number of CPUs: 2
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3: Guest memory: 512 MB
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4: Sound card (appliance expects "", can change on import)
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5: USB controller
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6: Network adapter: orig NAT, config 2, extra slot=0;type=NAT
7: CD-ROM
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8: IDE controller, type PIIX4
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9: IDE controller, type PIIX4
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10: Hard disk image: source image=IE6 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk, target path=/Users/rosannemcginn/.ievms/IE6 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk, controller=8;channel=0 0%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR
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VBoxManage: error: Could not create the clone medium '/Users/rosannemcginn/.ievms/IE6 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk'.
VBoxManage: error: VMDK: could not create new file '/Users/rosannemcginn/.ievms/IE6 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_ALREADY_EXISTS)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component Appliance, interface IAppliance
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sda2 - 50GB - Windows 7 - no flags
sda3 - 50GB - Unpartitioned Space - no flags
Next boot into Arch and choose to manually partition the drives using cfdisk, using the unfinished space create 3 logical partitions of the sizes 100MB, 2GB, and 50GB. Mark the 100MB one you just created with a boot flag and unmark the 100MB one Windows created.
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sda3 - 50GB - Unpartitioned Space - no flags
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How to install SUNWi1cs in Solaris 10 under Virtual Box

Hallo!I am a total newbie in Solaris.
I have installed Solaris 10 (guest OS)via Virtual Box in XP (host OS).I would like to install Oracle 10g in Solaris 10 but prerequisite s/w like SUNWi1cs and SUNWi15cs aren’t installed.
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/mnt/cdrom/Solaris_10/Product
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Importing Oracle Virtual Box VM into OVS 2.2

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What I'm mostly interested in is if it will actually work on XenServer and if so, then if the performance is worthwhile (ie: it performs nearly as well as being on the server natively). If the performance is poor, then I won't bother with XenServer and go with ESXi and probably won't virtualize my Mac hardware.
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Hello-
Not to sure where to place this question in the forums, but I was wondering if anyone has used Parallels as well as virtual box so they could say which one is better. I have a PC program I want to run on my Macbook Pro, witch is Proshow Producer a honken slideshow program for PC and far superior to Imovie.
I found out that virtual box is free, but wasn't sure if it will be up for the task. In fact, I don't know if Parallels will be up for the task either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/oraclevm/061976.html
http://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/2009/05/oracle_vm_blog_basics_of_oracl.html
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Folks, greetings.
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and
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Hemant K Chitale wrote:
Oracle VM : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/overview/index.html
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Windows 7 can not joinng to domain but windows Xp does in Virtual Box Manager

Dear all,
I need your support and thanks in advance.
I have installed Windows 7 and Windows 2008 server in a Virtual Box. Windows 2008 server is my Domain Controller and DNS is configured. Please find my configuration below.
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:55:41 +0000, biswajeetpattnaik wrote:
When I join the domain I use bbi and and I get authentication asking for user name and password.
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