> I've mostly used the free VMware server and player, but thought the > networking > support was about the same as Virtualbox. What have you found that is > significantly different? So far I mostly prefer VMware server for the > ability > to run the console and disconnect/reconnect where with virtualbox you seem > to > have to decide ahead of time if you want a console or not - but I'm not a > big > fan of the new web console in the 2.x series. > There are two major issues I've had with VMWare Workstation that have not occurred in VirtualBox: 1) When the host network connection comes and goes (either intentionally or otherwise) the networking to and from VMWare VMs fail completely and cannot be restored without a host reboot. 2) DHCP via an external system (router/gateway) often fails to the VMs with nothing more than timeout errors in the VM logs. VirtualBox has issues to, as does most software, so I end up using both to get all of my testing and simulations done. -geoff --------------------------------- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/