On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Matt Callow <mc-lists@tesco.net> wrote:

> I have tried virutalbox in the past. I didn't see any benefit over
> vmware, so switched back to vmware. (I'm more familiar with vmware).
> In what ways do you find virtualbox better than vmware (performance,
> ease of use?)
> I'd be willing to try it again if there were performance gains to be
> hadm and its offers something similar to vmware 'unity' mode
>

I agree with Bruno, VirtualBox is faster than VmWare. VmWare has many nice
features like mounting the guest hard drive on the host machine, cloning and
hierarchical snapshots, but those are more important for windows driver
development in my opinion. For running MPLAB or other Windows software is
more important how fast is that. Using 2.2GHz dual core CPU with 3G RAM
virtually I have no issue with speed on it. MPLAB and AVR Studio runs
effortless -- and for everythng else I use Linux software.

One thing with VirtualBox though: The OSE version (Open Source Edition) does
not support USB, therefore you need to go with the non-OSE one, which is
also free for personal use.

BTW: MLPAB in Wine is ok, but it would not work with PicKit2 as there is no
USB support.

Tamas



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