[clug-talk] vmware bridged network woes (resend)

[gustin at echostar.ca]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Greg King wrote:

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> Thanks Gustin. I'm sorry I missed your last talk re this subject at 
> CLUG. I am becoming somewhat disillusioned about VMware too. I've 
> started playing with Virtualbox but may consider ESXi down the road.  So 
> far Virtualbox looks pretty good, but it is early times for me.  

Just one word of caution with the VMWare ESX family is that the client 
software to manage VMs is only supported by Windows.  Worse to access the 
console of a given VM, the Vsphere client seems to make use of DirectDraw, 
which means that it does not work from inside a VirtualBox VM for me (wine 
on my x64 based system does not seem to be able to support 3d, and this is 
what Virtualbox uses for rendering).

For Desktop use (ie. in cases where I would traditionally reach for VMWare 
Workstation or Player) I tend to favour Virtualbox.  The exception is when 
I have to manage ESX with the VSphere client, and so I have a VM that I 
run inside of VMWare Player (I have now completely given up on the VMWare 
Workstation product).