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Help my company switch! Virtualisation and Macs.
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<blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 1058281" data-attributes="member: 89124"><p>Here's a thought with regard to VMWare Fusion - you can use VMWare Converter to convert a VMWare Fusion machine to VMWare Player/Server/ESX/GSX, etc. - as you already have fusion, it wouldn't take much to whip up a small VM (even a stripped down linux or dos VM) and then try out using Converter on it and use Player on a desktop to see how the transition works. </p><p></p><p>Myself, I use Fusion at home on my Mac Pro but VirtualBox on my Macs (VB seems to be a bit less resource intensive compared to VM Fusion) My one gripe with VB in the past is they in some releases had trouble with their NAT for networking - the performance was TERRIBLE - bridged worked fine. The latest version of VB seems to work better tho for NAT connections between guest and host. I like Fusions Unity mode better tho. VMWare also has more powerful server class options (ESX/GSX/etc.) compared to VB.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nethfel, post: 1058281, member: 89124"] Here's a thought with regard to VMWare Fusion - you can use VMWare Converter to convert a VMWare Fusion machine to VMWare Player/Server/ESX/GSX, etc. - as you already have fusion, it wouldn't take much to whip up a small VM (even a stripped down linux or dos VM) and then try out using Converter on it and use Player on a desktop to see how the transition works. Myself, I use Fusion at home on my Mac Pro but VirtualBox on my Macs (VB seems to be a bit less resource intensive compared to VM Fusion) My one gripe with VB in the past is they in some releases had trouble with their NAT for networking - the performance was TERRIBLE - bridged worked fine. The latest version of VB seems to work better tho for NAT connections between guest and host. I like Fusions Unity mode better tho. VMWare also has more powerful server class options (ESX/GSX/etc.) compared to VB. [/QUOTE]
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