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20050712-063955
 Compare VMWare Workstation 5 & VirtualPC 5.2
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I heavily use VMWare and Virutal PC thess days. Many guest OS are installed and simulated for diverse projects. The installed guest OSs contain:
* Windows 2003 .net server enterprise Ed.
* Fedora Core 4
* FreeBSD 4.11
* FreeBSD 5.4
The host OSs employed include Windows XP and RedHat 9.
Here are my comments after using VMWare and Virtual PC.
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Criteria |
VMWare Workstation 5 |
Virtual PC |
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Performance |
good |
good |
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# of supported guest OS |
More |
less |
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Support Fedora Core 4 as guest OS |
yes |
no |
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Type of host OS |
Windows & Linux |
Windiws only |
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Snapshot support |
yes |
no |
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Virtual machine clone |
yes |
no |
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Types of simulated virtual devices/peripheral |
rich |
poor |
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Virtual Networking |
Powerful, support Team & VLAN |
Weak. |
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Stability |
good |
normal |
| Guest OS run-time thumbnail |
No |
Yes |
Virtual PC stopped to prograss after acquired by Microsoft, but VMWare continue to grow up after acquired by EMC.
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