![]() ![]() VirtualBox has one feature that really separates it from VMware Workstation Player, and that’s snapshots. VMware doesn’t offer any virtual machine presets from the off, but they’re easy enough to find at sites like OS Boxes or directly from sites like CloudReady (a Chromium OS fork) or Android-x86. Obviously for licensed products like Windows and macOS, you’ll need to legitimately procure the boot media to actually use them. VirtualBox maybe has a bit of an edge here because it has a whole bunch virtual machine options built into it (macOS, Windows XP, various Linux builds and so on). Featuresīoth VirtualBox and VMware offer vast repositories of virtual machines you can use. The Workstation Pro comes with a fee, but provides more advanced virtualization solution. VMware Workstation Player is free for non-commercial, personal and home use. Its Extension Pack is also free for personal, educational or evaluation use, but requires a Enterprise license fee for commercial use. VirtualBox is distributed with the GNU General Public License and is free for everyone to use. ![]() Want to know more about how virtualization works? Here’s our full explanation of virtualization, or you can check out our list of the best free virtualization tools for Windows 10. We’ll mainly be comparing the free versions of VirtualBox and VMware, though will also mention the premium versions when relevant. Here we weigh the two up against each other, helping you decide which one is best for your needs. Both have free and premium versions, each offering a different degree of functionality and variations in performance. But the two virtualization heavyweights have their differences.
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