Why would someone use Vmware instead of virtualbox which is free?

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Ive used both and Im wondering what does vmware do that virtualbox doesnt to warrant spending money?

 

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Possibly down to choice

Vmware player is totally free for non commercial use


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I used a free trial of fusion (my main OS is mac) and now I have virtualbox and honestly cant see the difference of why I would go pay for fusion. Only issue I am having which I can probably fix just cant be bothered is it not recognising external drives on the guest OS

 

Virtualbox can do most things. However, I have Cisco VIRL and unfortunately it's not supported on Virtualbox, so I use VMware Workstation

'No support for VirtualBox.®
VIRL is not supported on Oracle VirtualBox due to its lack of support for nested virtualization.'

 

Actually Mike, you hit the nail on the head there, nested virtualisation is a great idea and something I have done with both Workstation and full on vSphere. For a while it was the only product that allowed you to nest Hyper-V as well.

For me I use Workstation first because I got it for free with my first VCP (not something that happens now I believe), I have also upgraded it over the years (I also get the occasional freeby via VMUG's or VMworld when cards are given away for free).