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.
those of you the know me will know my default position on this..!
taking a more balanced view I think the key benefit of VMware is the all-up tooling. if you like the simple life then VMware is the way to go. the tooling exists for hyper-v it’s just called “system center” 😉
for me the convenience of having w2012 as a host (which runs all my desktop stuff without issues) and then guest VMs that are just “there” trumps all. it maximises my resources and provides me with maximum flexibility especially in unusual scenarios (at home I use iscsi passthrough disks for uber performance) or when I want to do itpro things actually on a hyper-v host.
I hear lots of folks whine about how hard it is to get server (2008 or 2012) working well as a regular desktop (with office, wireless, audio, etc.) but they tend to be devs who aren’t in the business of doing itpro things like desktop setup or they’re using hardware that isn’t from one of the big enterprise vendors so they’re struggling with oem or consumer drivers and support.
for me virtualbox isn’t in the running and don’t even get me started about folks running things on fruit technologies. demons the lot of them!
