So if you are running one VM, you can easily choose between VirtualBox or VMWare Player, but if you are looking into creating a virtual network on guest VMs, VMWare Player would not be recommended over VirtualBox. I am currently running only 3 VMs, two are assigned 2GB of RAM and one 4 GB. Make sure that no VM is sharing any resource with another VM (Like a HDD, CDROM or Webcam), because they might have issues, especially if it is the same Virtual HDD they are sharing.Īs a comparison I did between VirtualBox and VMWare in Ubuntu Discourse the more VMWare Players you have, the more blood sucking cpu/memory draining VMs you will have as shown in the image below: To make this less annoying, do the key combination backwards, like ALT+CTRL So you need to open an additional VMWare Player for each VM you wish to run.ĭoing CTRL+ALT to escape a VM sometimes will make the Ubuntu HUD appear on the host. Big difference when compared to VirtualBox for example where the main window stays independent of how many VMs you end up running (I have tested at least 8 VMs at the same time). You have to open one VMWare Player for each VM. It only has the main window where it offers which VM you want to run and that's it. VMWare Player does NOT come with an easy to use multiple VM management window for simultaneous VMs. Here is an image of how it looks right now: In my case it is the scroll wheel button.įrom there I used a different VM since opening the same VM on different VMWare players can create a problem. This is the same mouse button which closes browser tabs or opens Chrome/Firefox links in another tab. Since I needed at least 2 Guests, the way I opened multiple VMs with VMWare was to simply middle click the VMWare icon on the Launcher or simply open another VMWare in dash. Since the latest VirtualBox was having visual issues with Ubuntu 14.10 (At least until a new virtualbox comes out), I used VMWare PLayer to practice some Server-Client stuff.

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