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This article is from August 2004, and isn’t really of much use anymore. VMWare has been shipping VMWare 5 for a couple months now.
AFAIK VMWare has always been ahead of VPC in terms of features, but it’s always seemed to me that VPC was a bit quicker in terms of performance (never seen any benchmarks though). So I suppose it’s a trade off, like just about everything else.
Well, I suppose I should’ve read the article completely, it does seem to have a sped comparison.
Time to give vmware another look…
What’s the point in posting a link to a review that is almost a year old? VMware 5 has been out for ages now, and the ‘forth coming Virtual Server 2005’ has been out for ages.
Come on OSNews.com…this isn’t like you guys
pac
Trust OS news to bring you the very latest in nine month old news…
VMware Workstation 5 has been out for a little while now. It’s a very major upgrade with big performance improvements and lots of new features. If VMware Workstation 4.5 beat VPC, then VMware 5 woulc completely clobber it.
Which you would imagine it would, seeing as Microsoft can add a special “running in VPC” mode to Windows to make it run faster. VMWare can’t do that. Some enhancements to make 3d apps run faster on Workstation would be good, but hey, that’s not really the market for virtualisation products.
The clone and snapshot features work very well.
Max wrote:
never seen any benchmarks though
You won’t because VMWare forbids publishing benchmark results (I don’t know if M$ VPC does too)
I haven’t upgraded to Vmware 5 yet, but sounds like I ought to if performance is hiked so much.
Also an updated review should start to take in Xen as well, which will become big news onve Pacifica/IVT CPUs are release.
VirtualPC was _never_ intended to be a real competitor to VMWare Workstation …