Nonetheless, VirtualBox is a very good competitor, specially for testing PXE boot images. The choice of using VMplayer is somewhat simple: it's free (for non-commercial use), very good (if not best) performance and easy to use. Warning: VMPlayer is only free for non-commercial use.
But at least with virtualization, one person can handle 3, 4 or even more virtual machines at the same time or in sequence, all with a single real machine.įor the readers that don't know what machine virtualization is, here are some pages on this subject at Wikipedia: Testing OpenFOAM installations on several different Operating Systems can take its toll.
4.2 Unable to operate the VMplayer window.4.1 The yield() function is not activated.