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Experimenting with Virtulization

Hello everyone. I want to try Google OS. For that purpose I am planning to install virtualization software. I have the option to use VMWare Palyer or VirtualBox. I am absolute beginner, and even though I understand the concept of virtualization, never used it. Can you please suggest which of the two option (i.e. VMWare Player or VirtualBox) is easy option for beginner.

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This isn't programming related. Please consider asking this at SuperUser.com – Alan Sep 28 at 21:15
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WRONG. Virtualization is CRUCIAL to so many programming problems/solutions. Choosing a good virtualization platform is half the battle, so this question definitely belongs here. – iftrue Sep 28 at 21:21
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Virtualization may be helpful for developers, but OP's question itself is not related to a programming task – bdukes Sep 28 at 21:27
Hi! Why is this question being voted down. I just want comments so that I don't repeat the mistake. Regards – kobra Sep 28 at 23:59

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VirtualBox is dead simple, and it's free. Use it.

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+1 also no issues with unsigned drivers on x64 Windows that VMWare has/had. – kerchingo Sep 28 at 21:16
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VBox is free and does pretty much everything VMWare does. It's easily more capable than the free VMWare player.

If you have budget, I still prefer VMWare workstation for the flexibility of its disk snapshot mechanism. It's getting increasingly hard to justify the cost in the face of recent versions of VirtualBox though.

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