We had a mini discussion last night on chat. There was debate about which is best.
So,
– Which is best for dev and test ?
– Which is best for production ?
– Which is cheapest ?
– Is virtual box any good ?
I use hyper-v on Windows 8 with 32 GB. Got 3 versions of SharePoint running most of the time and its awesome. I still remember the horror days of Virtual Pc. Microsoft have come a long way.
Thanks to Mark for posting this and Vlad and Matthias (so far) for responding. This is perfect timing.
I tried VirtualBox briefly and had too many issues. I don’t even remember what they were now, but for me the product was not stable.
I know many who have used VMware, and so I began using the free version a year or so ago. That has worked well for me, but my desktop machine is maxed at 16GB memory, and my VMs are soooo sluggish.
I’ve been considering nuking my main home machine and installing Hyper-V on there. Reading the comments, I do like what has been said about the dynamic memory management. On the negative side, I’d miss copy/paste, higher resolution, and I really do not want to have to waste time mucking about with networking issues. …I believe I need to do a little more research (and find more time!)
