VirtualBox vs VMWare Player - Which should you use?

Choosing a hypervisor may be difficult, but today we are comparing two of the most popular free hypervisors; VirtualBox and VMWare Player. Both of these clients have their fair share of features and quirks, but which one prevails? In this video, we're finding that out.

[esotericusername]

I switched to VMware Workstation after a bad experience with Virtualbox. I can definitely say that the performance increase is drastic, especially on bad computers like my old one, and VMware tools were easy to install. I have had few problems with VMware, but have no regrets about switching.

[jayit]

VirtualBox has always been my go to. But in my experience it is ALWAYS super hard to configure correctly. I spent the whole day today trying to get the configurations right to fix some problem with a Windows 10 guest, and in the end I could never figure out why performance was just not up to par even with 8 cores and 16 GB of RAM (I had plenty to give). I tried installing Windows 10 on VMWare and instantly out of the box it was as smooth as my host machine and it only allocated 2 cores and 2 GB. Not only that but getting my webcam and microphone to work was seamless out of the box unlike VB.

I have a soft spot of VirtualBox but it seems like from these comments bad experiences are more common than I thought.

[doomanime]

Appreciate the efforts dude!! This was really helpful

[PandemicGameplay]

I've always used VMware Player over Virtualbox, I had some bad experiences with VB YEARS ago and never decided to try it out again. Seems like I am not missing out.

[bigamz]

Great job man, thank you for making this comparison

[darakh]

hey man! im on the free version of soft soft and the plugins list on the left side of the screen is not showing up and i can not bring it up.

[UrbanGuitarLegend]

Have you tried vmware fusion on a mac. I'm seriously considering it since running a CentOS vm using Virtual Box on a Mac is super laggy.

[caillousdad]

It's 2022... what is the VMware program I should be using? I am currently on workstation 16. I'm seeing new things like Fusion (is that only on Mac?) otherwise I want to run more tests on FreeBSD 14.0 current (windows as host), which doesn't seem to play well on the version I'm on. What is the current VM program?

[sppy]

"it's compatable with *virtually* anything"

*laugh track plays*

[Felven]

is it possible to migrate virtual machines from one software to another while saving their drives?

[jonathanmitchell]

have tried both, but found that my mouse pointer did not fly all over the place like yours. What am I doing wrong?

[HouDa-finq]

guys pls what are the limitations when opting for vmware free version?

[karthiceaswar]

The cursor disappears while moving in vmware. When not moving it's there. But while moving it disappears. Help me.

[WCepheiHD]

Can anybody help me here... I'm applying for a "work from home" job that requires the use of a Windows Laptop with Windows 10 or above... at home I only have Apple computers and laptops, my question is... if I use a Virtual Machine, can I be 100% ascertained that this will be absolutely compatible and have the same functionality as a Windows Laptop for any Software and functions that the job may require?? Or should I go safer and just simply buy a Windows laptop which is definitely gonna cost me more?? And also, would I then need to install anti-viruses for my Mac to run this Windows? Doesn't Windows 10 and above come with it for free?

[KS-cwtx]

Hi, Can I open 4 visual PCs use windows 10 for playing games at the same time?

[Zaptosis]

For years I've occasionally had the need for a virtual machine, I've always just downloaded VirtualBox cause that's just the standard everyone uses. Downloading VMWare Player right now.

[snoky]

How do I pull up those effects slots on the left of the setuper?

[namandang]

i had to reinstall whjole windows cuz of virtual box. it doesnt specify thaat u have to delete any virtual machine before uninstalling it because of which i had 50gb storage blocked

[utkudenizaltiok]

I can't run an .exe files in virtual machine (its a 70 mb game) what should I do ?

[jasonsong]

Thanks for this - now I will download VMWare.
Noob question, if I install VMware, and allocate some ram and memory to it, does it mean for my main machine (the OS without the hypervisor), the RAM will be depleted? So if I have 32 GB RAM physically, I allocate 8 GB to VMware, does my main machine only see 24 GB RAM? I ask because I do video editing on my main machine and I don't want performance to suffer because of this.