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VMware and Xen are the top dogs of the virtualization world, but they are not your only choices. Another worthy contender is VirtualBox, which has been called “the best virtualization program you’ve never heard of.” At the least it’s one of the easiest to use. We’re going to compare the three, and then install and run VirtualBox.

VMware has been around for a long time, and the workstation edition is an old favorite for cross-platform developers. The enterprise editions do more than let you turn a single server into a server farm; they also do resource and storage allocation, and some fancy network management tricks. It’s not just a hypervisor; it’s a Solution. VMware lets you use either Linux or Windows as the host operating system, except for the ESX and ESXi editions. These are Type 1 hypervisors, which means they run between the bare metal and the guest operating systems, which can be pretty much whatever you want. Hypervisors that require a host operating system, like VMware Workstation and Server, are Type 2 hypervisors. VMware supports both Linux and Windows as host operating systems.

Check out this article talking about the different virtualization platforms, it’s always important to check the range of options out there, to see which one meets your needs, which one could be deployed within your organizational/technical constraints, an interesting read.

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