Vmware or virtualbox?

I discovered by accident that if you have Hyper-V enabled Virtual Toolbox of VMplayer don't work. I attempted VTB and the list of option of OS's of the VM machine only showed 32 bit choices. I attempted to install the 32 bit Technical Preview and got an error. When I tried to use VMplayer it gave me an error something like can't use if Hyper-V VM exists. So I decided to use Hyper-V which i installed and no wireless but I googled and found out I have to create A virtual switch and select the wireless card. That worked fine the the VM got corrupt and I tried to reinstall the VM and I had to set the virtual switch again but I could get it to work. SO I went back to VMplayer. I read the error again and I though maybe if i disable Hyper-V it will work. I disabled Hyper-V in windows and when went to Virtual toolbox it showed 64 bit and 32 bit in the dropdown. I installed but it would let me go above 1600 by 900. So then I decided to try VMPlayer and it's working fine. I've added all the new builds with no problems.

Then my laptop broke and I sent it back to repair so I replaced my Windows 7 boot SSD with an older and smaller SSD and I installed The technical preview build 9926 and it's working fine.

SO my choice is VMPlayer as everything runs well except my camera.

I used vBox for years but there were always little gremlins. Now I use VMware Player which works very well for me. Only the printing from a Linux distro is a problem. That may be a driver problem though.

Kesto said:

Well you can take snapshots and share VMs, you can also pause the state of your vm instead of having to start ALL over again.

You can do all of this with Hyper-V. One advantage Hyper-V has over VBox and VMWare (non server) is it automatically suspends and restarts VMs when you reboot.

I am not a Hyper-V expert. I use VMware Player and run all my virtual systems from an external device (SSD of fast USB stick). That way I can run the virtual systems of which I have about a dozen on every system that has VMware Player installed - even Linux systems or an old Vista laptop from 2007. Is that something I could do with Hyper-V ??

Kari, that sounds interesting but more complicated than my external SSD approach. And I don't know how your scheme would work when I move from Florida to Germany with everything in Florida shut down and a different ISP in Germany.

(subject to the PC is running an OS which has Hyper-V)

Here is one of the problems - most of my PCs don't support Hyper-V. But my system works for me. Why change if it ain't broke.

I have no recent experience with VMware, but with VirtualBox on Windows 7 and one or two VM's running but doing nothing, the CPU load on the host was always 10 to 20%.

Now with Hyper-V on Windows 10 Pro, under the same conditions, the CPU load is only 2 to 5%.

Since my host is a laptop, it runs quite a bit cooler!

My 2 cents worth,

Bart