Only downside is video cacceleration and you need remote desktop connections for your vms. Hyper-V is great for certification as it is what is on Win dows server. OR was when I used it 3 years ago and is rarely updated and usb 2 was almost finished? Like vmware it is a type 2 hypervisor and will run your cpu hot as it uses software and layers to communicate between your vms and hardware. With vmware workstation it is great for web development running ancient IE to code for bugs as you get nice video acceleration and can set bandwidth limitations for your vms. Also your cpu will run hot with vmware player/workstation as it is a type 2 software hypervisor with layers of software to communicate your hardware and vms. It is great for running a vm or 2 but would not recommend if you are studying for you MCSA/E as you need to run many vm's. VMWare player is free and is actually vmware workstation lite. You do not have to buy another copy of WIndows or re-install. If you are on Windows 7 upgrade to 10 for free and then pay to upgrade to pro under system properties under this pc. It is only $80 extra to upgrade your OS to pro (assuming you use at least 8.1). If you really need anything important use Hyper-V or spend the money for Vmware workstation to get real work done. I'm just wondering in a memory constrained environment which one is lighter. I'm wondering- given the "same" specs for a given VM, which is more "heavy"- more memory and resource intensive, Player or Virtualbox? I'm not concerned at the moment about speed or compatibility or features- both furnish what I need. Therefore, I need either OVB or vmWare *why*? Notice that I said the SAME way - not a similar way. Google Play Services is deployed on VSE for Android the same way it is on OVB - with or without Genymotion (drag and drop). First off, Hyper-V - which doesn't require or even USE HAXM (unlike OVB, which requires HAXM to get decent performance out of Android VMs) smashes OVB flat in terms of VM performance, while being just as easy to use. Since that shootout, Visual Studio Community 2015 and a rewritten Emulator for Android have come along - which actually pushes OVB and Genymotion further into irrelevancy - especially for Android developers. Result - VT-x - both vmWare and OVB - got smashed flat by Hyper-V - all else being equal.) Further, in the heads-up challenge, I stuck to Gen I Hyper-V virtual machines - to keep the playing field level. (The very reason I went with 2012R2 is that unlike either flavor of Windows OR Server 2016, EPT isn't a requirement to leverage Hyper-V in 2012R2. both vmWare and OVB on first Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. I'm giving it a few more months then I'll try converting my machines to better generations and see if I can even amp the performance more.īut to the original question, a slightly related answer - Hyper-V performance seems better than VMWare on the same windows guest boxes, which is to be expected.īefore my desktop rebuild, I had been using Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012R2 heads-up vs. I'm finding I really like it, more than I expected. I was already paying for Windows 10 Pro anyway, and I realized I was mostly working with Windows stuff, so the choice was pretty easy. While this isn't exactly related to the original post, I moved from VMWare to Hyper-V fully after the VMWare workstation team got gutted.
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