

You can also use their Infrastructure client on windows. The admin tool is webbased and works like a charm. (its basicly a Linux with the VMware virtualization technology) You can simply move running OSs to the VMware ESX, or import them from a drive. Guest OS Compatibilityįrom all I’ve used, VMware is much more friendly to the latest operating systems. For example, when the initial release of Windows 10 Preview first, VMware already supports the OS but VirtualBox does not yet. It installs as the OS on the host computer with only 32 MB ram overhead. So for the price issue, especially for desktop virtualization purposes for personal use, both VMware and VirtualBox can be considered a draw.ġ point for both . Priceįor non-commercial desktop virtualization purposes, both VMware and VirtualBox can be obtained for free.īoth also provide upgrade options to get various additional features if needed. Note: All explanations here are based on my experience after using both in the last few years. Your experience may be different.

Today Matob will help you to determine which one you should choose, VMware or VirtualBox, by comparing several factors that they have.

Īpart from the Window 11 Enterprise Edition Evaluation Edition, the virtual machine images also include: Run the original vmware image and uninstall vmware-tools (it can be done afterwards, but its probably easier to do it beforehand) Install VMWare Workstation or VMWare Server (the latter is freely available). The virtual image is available in four types, packaged according to the four popular virtual machines: VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, and Parallels. If you are looking forincreased efficiency, VMwareis the best option. Well, of course, the size of the Window 11 Enterprise Edition virtual image will be greater than an ISO file because it has already been installed and the user just needs to deploy it, hence it comes in the size of 20GB.

To make things easy for the Virtual machine world, Microsoft has recently released pre-built and installed with few features Virtual machine images of Windows 11 Enterprise Edition for developers or enterprise administrators to quickly deploy Win 11 on their respective virtual machines without waiting for minutes to an hour in installing and setting up essential things they required.
