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VirtualBox - has good community support & is completely free. I'm currently running the newest version for all of my VMs. Editing the VMX files is the only way around this (can be done with Player VMs as well). VMWare Workstation - it's right in between Player & ESXi since there are a lot more features to configure & utilize but still lacks the ability to define certain hardware features. I definitely does lack power features though. 3D acceleration & virtual device support keeps this free version relevant.

VMWare Tools) are installed to improve graphics and mouse performance - effectively this means the resulting VM has near native performance with minimal overhead.VMWare Player - works really well with almost every OS I've emulated. This is called VT-x or AMD-V, and often has to be enabled in the bios on older machines.īasically this means that your BIOS handles Memory and I/O virtualization on this chip, while specialist drivers (e.g. If you're a hobbyist/student programmer however, you'll likely find VirtualBox to be a little more functional than the free VMWare Player.Īs far as performance goes, Intel and AMD both have shipped chips with hardware virtualization since 2005/2006 respectively. It's pretty cheap (assuming you get paid to program) and has many, many awesome features that you'll come to love. If you're using VMWare Workstation, you can leverage even more out of the environment by installing Visual Studio on the Host PC, and using the Guest VM for debugging, if your application crashes you can actually rewind back to before the crash and step through your code with the same heap and stack before it crashed!īasically, I suggest going with VMWare Workstation. Both are fine as long as you install the respective tools and drivers provided for the guest OS