Battle Which is lighter? WMware 11 or VirtualBox 4.3

[Maxxx58]

Hello all, wish all of you have a nice day.
My story: I need a virtualization software to do my Lab at school. I am using VMware WorkStation 11. I installed 4 Virtual Machines on my computer (Intel Core i5 4200U, 8GB RAM DDR3L). I feel some lag on my system when I turn on 4 VMs at the same time (no additional software running except Foxit Reader). If I install 4 VMs by using VirtualBox 4.3, Does my computer runs lighter on resource usage? Do I need to change to VirtualBox?
Thanks all!

 

[jamescv7]

Well it depends to the RAM assigned consumption configuration (Virtualbox), if its 1GB for each VM then that should not cause any slowdowns. My laptop specification is AMD A8 with 8GB DDR3 I can manage to run two VM (assigned 2GB) with no slowdowns.

 

[Alaa40AnAX]

VirtualBox is very good an lighter than Vm Ware ..

Iam using virtualbox for 1 yera and very very good

 

[Maxxx58]

Well it depends to the RAM assigned consumption configuration (Virtualbox), if its 1GB for each VM then that should not cause any slowdowns. My laptop specification is AMD A8 with 8GB DDR3 I can manage to run two VM (assigned 2GB) with no slowdowns.

I set 1GB for each VM. But I still feel lag on my machine. I don't know why

 

[illumination]

How are you running 4 VM's at once with an intel i5? You only have 4 logical processor cores to work with, and assuming you are only assigning 1 of those cores per VM, there would be nothing left to run the host. Im willing to bet, neither of these products will be able to run 4 VM's on that machine with no lag

 

[Maxxx58]

How are you running 4 VM's at once with an intel i5? You only have 4 logical processor cores to work with, and assuming you are only assigning 1 of those cores per VM, there would be nothing left to run the host. Im willing to bet, neither of these products will be able to run 4 VM's on that machine with no lag

But my friend's machine runs smoothly. I don't know why? (I don't know his machine specs)

 

[illumination]

But my friend's machine runs smoothly. I don't know why? (I don't know his machine specs)

You would need an intel i7 quad core to run 4 vm's at once, and that would be still only allocating 1 processor core per each machine. Intel i5 can only allocate 2 processor cores comfortably, still allowing your host to function properly.

 

[Maxxx58]

You would need an intel i7 to run 4 vm's at once, and that would be still only allocating 1 processor core per each machine. Intel i5 can only allocate 2 processor cores comfortably, still allowing your host to function properly.

Core i7. When I graduated and go to work

 

[NekoJonez]

While VirtualBox is lighter then VMWare, I feel that VMWare supports more then VirtualBox.

EG: I was able to play more games in VMWare then I could in VirtualBox.

That said, both programs are equally awesome in malware research.

 

[songoku316]

VirtualBox is lighter and free

 

[Kuttz]

What about using VMware player, which is the lightest and free too. I use it for all of my malware testings in it. VMware Player is a smaller version of the big VMware Workstation. In most cases VMware Player is sufficient for personal use.

VMware Player at: http://www.filehorse.com/download-vmware-player/

 

[NekoJonez]

I think you can't make snapshots in VMWare Player.

 

[NekoJonez]

Oh also, VirtualBox 5.0 released a few days ago.

 

[Rolo]

I think you can't make snapshots in VMWare Player.

Why I've never tried it. If you don't need snapshots or you don't need free, VMware is more established.

 

[Secondmineboy]

You can copy/replace the VMs folder in your documents directory to revert a machine

 

[Rolo]

I thought of that but, nah.

Reverting snapshot: seconds
Copying a virtual hard disk on the same hard drive: a while, disrupts testing, etc.