Re: Talking about Oracle Lab Setup - which VM provider do you prefer?

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:58:36 -0600
Message-ID: <CAJvnOJapK_XLt1Gcnu0TiaucXgiRQM=SGpp0WsAtLJDPPAfaBg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Well, I like VMware workstation. Very few problems with it. Oracle VirtualBox is short of features, including support for large pages, though last I heard that may be fixed. I really havent seen the resource problem, but I did configure my desktop specifically so I could use Virtual machines, 64G RAM with a quad core for my desktop.

With regard to DNS, I was able to find a reference and set up a local DNS on a VMware workstation using the standard Redhat Software. It did take me a few hours to figure out the setup, but it was worth the trouble.

I didnt get deep into the details of virtual box, does it have virtual network editor like VMware does? Being kind of geeky, I pay for a bank of 5 public IP's from ATT (only using two of them currently), running routers behind the ATT router allows me to have multiple physical networks, and the VMware virtual network editor allows me to bind specific virtual NIC's to specific physical networks, which is really nice.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Sandip Mukhopadhyay < sandip.mukhopadhyay24_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> I will prefer Oracle VirtualBox. I have used both VirtualBox and VMWARE
> workstation product simultaneously with the same resource in same laptop.
>
> Finding is - Oracle Virtual Box consumes much less resources and much
> faster. VMWARE workstation may have more exciting features/options but it
> hangs frequently.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sandip
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Chris Taylor <
> christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mainly out of curiosity - for those of you that setup Oracle VMs on
>> personal hardware, which vendor do you prefer and what are the drawbacks
>> (if any) that caused you to go with the one you chose?
>>
>> For example, if you prefer VirtualBox over Vmware, is there a specific
>> reason and vice versa?
>>
>> I've got a new w520 laptop I'm going to be setting up machines on and I
>> remember the last time I did this I ended up picking one over the other but
>> I can't remember why...
>>
>> Any virtual machine tips related to setup/configuration you'd like to
>> share about the networking setup or anything? (For example, I would
>> recommend the Dual DHCP DNS Software from sourceforge to run locally as it
>> will allow you to "fake out" the RAC configuration tool by seeing the host
>> names in your DNS server and doing DNS lookups locally).
>>
>> I vaguely remember that either VMWare or Virtualbox was harder to get the
>> network configuration setups the way I wanted them but I can't remember
>> which one was easier to deal with.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>

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