How compatible are VMWare and VirtualBox?


Mike Corsoder

At my workplace, everyone uses VMware Player (some have licenses for Workstation). We often share VMs to save development setup time. However, I'd really like to take advantage of the "snapshot" feature in VirtualBox, since I can't get a license for Workstation.

I've learned that VirtualBox has no problem reading VMWare VMs (including VMs with snapshots). However, I'm concerned about how compatible things are.

In VirtualBox, I open a VM created in VMware, and create multiple snapshots. Can the resulting file be opened in VMware?

Karl

I've had great success using VMWare VMDK files under VirtualBox, but haven't used it for the past 18 months or so, during which time VB has released several versions. I'd be surprised if it didn't work. However, VMWare can't handle VB snapshots - you have to "accept" (I don't remember the actual word) all the changes recorded in the snapshot in order to make a single VMDK file for the VM using your VMWare - the worker uses the file.

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