08
February
2008
VirtualBox vs VMWare vs Parallels vs Qemu
Have a look at this great little comparison between the biggest four names in virtualization.
This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels Workstation.
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This article looked at four different products for virtualization in Linux, specifically Ubuntu Linux. The findings were interesting - the only product that requires the purchase of a licence for personal use, Parallels, actually performed the worst of the group. Qemu did well for a completely free-as-in-speech application, although VMware and VirtualBox blew the competition away in terms of performance.
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:57 am
HI,
nice review n’ all… but it would have been nice to know which versions of all the softs you tested. I’m asking this because I am myself trying to use QEmu, and it seems nightly builds used to come up quite regularly with fixes here and there, donno about the others.
Anyway, good job, clearly enlightens a few !
June 25th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I am disappointed that I spent money on Parallels.
I have since moved on to VirtualBox (v1.6.2) and absolutely love it! I get much better performance and overall system response on VirtualBox than I ever received in Parallels.
I am deleting Parallels from my Applications folder and I’m not looking back.